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.
- Joseph Sobran
Founding Fathers, Fathers, Assume
The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.
- Joseph Sobran
Purpose, Government, Most, Empire
Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.
- Joseph Sobran
Politics, Unproductive, Organized
Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission.
- Joseph Sobran
Freedom, Mean, More, Permission
War is just one more big government program.
- Joseph Sobran
Government, Big, Just One, Government Program
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