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Joseph Sobran
American
Activist
About the author
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,
American
Activist
#Right
#Being
#Government
#Americans
#Fathers
#Founding
War is just one more big government program.
Joseph Sobran,
American
Activist
#War
#Government
Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.
Joseph Sobran,
American
Activist
#Politics
Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission.
Joseph Sobran,
American
Activist
#Right
#Freedom
The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.
Joseph Sobran,
American
Activist
#Government
#Defense
#Purpose