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Joseph Sobran Quotes: Tyranny seldom announces itself...In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant. A whole government, even a democratically elected one, may be tyrannical.
         

Tyranny seldom announces itself...In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant. A whole government, even a democratically elected one, may be tyrannical.


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Destroying white civilization is the inmost desire of the league of designated victims we call minorities.



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Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer.



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Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.



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In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.



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The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.



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The purpose of a college education is to give you the correct view of minorities, and the means to live as far away from them as possible.





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