Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.

- Joseph Sobran

Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission.

- 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.

- Joseph Sobran

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

- Joseph Sobran

War is just one more big government program.

- Joseph Sobran