Quotes by Joseph Sobran

• 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.
• War is just one more big government program.
• Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.
• Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission.
• The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.