Joseph Sobran Quotes

I believe the relationship you have with your government is not so different to a love relationship.

The government serves the people - not vice-versa.

I believe that it is my right and responsibility as an American to question our government when our government is wrong.

It is the obligation of every government to yield protection to their citizens as the consideration for their obedience

I'm a better American than 99% of the guys in the White House.

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.

Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the dreadful consequences which shall result from a government of events.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

We must create a state that responds to the citizens' needs, and we need citizens who feel committed to their state because that state serves the citizens.

Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.

I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.

Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people.

Presidents come from the people and the should return to the people.

John F. Kennedy once said, "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." I have never understood why this utterance, which in essence urges everyone to volunteer themselves as unquestioning slaves, guinea pigs and cannon fodder to a grasping state, is quoted with such reverence. What Kennedy should have said is this: “Ask lots of very pointed questions about what your country promises to do for you, and don't forget to ask exactly what it proposes to do to you. Then pick the place that offers the best deal. You will be doing a favour not only to yourself, but potentially to all of mankind.”

No government has a legitimate right to do what is not for the welfare of the governed.

We don’t trust government, but we need government….Government didn’t land here from Mars. We elected them.

An actual residence of such a length of time as would give a man an opportunity of esteeming the Government from knowing its intrinsic value, was essentially necessary to assure us of a man’s becoming a good citizen.

It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.

... we, the people, elect leaders not to rule but to serve.

The basic social contract is that citizens agree to follow the law, pay their taxes, and devote their love and loyalty to their country, and in exchange, the nation commits to preserve and protect and serve their interests, safeguard their freedom, and return to them in kind their first allegiance and loyalty.

The state has a duty to protect all its citizens.

The Modi government's accountability towards the common man can be gauged from the fact that be it Indians trapped overseas, a helpless mother looking for a doctor for her ailing child in a train, or a housewife struggling to get a gas cylinder, help is just a tweet away, with no protocol or red tape intervening.

The CDU is willing to continue to take responsibility for our country. We want to do justice to the government mandate.

I am not the President. Instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States.

It is one thing to tell the citizens of some faraway country to go to hell, but it is another to do the same to your own citizens, who are supposedly your ultimate sovereigns.