"Michael Joseph "Joe" Sobran, Jr." was an American journalist and writer, formerly with National Review magazine and a syndicated columnist. Pundit and three-time U.S. Presidential/presidential candidate Pat Buchanan called Sobran "perhaps the finest columnist of our generation".

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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.

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In one century we went from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to offering remedial English in college.

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

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

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If the welfare state is here to welcome them, the solution is to get rid of it, as should have been done long ago. Overpopulation is a problem for socialist systems, not for free societies. In fact, the welfare system may be more destructive [to] the immigrants' families than to the natives.

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War nearly always serves as an occasion for serious expansions of state power and the destruction of legal protections.

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War is just one more big government program.

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Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money.

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I find myself surrounded by teenagers with body-piercing and exposed navels, gabbing on cell phones and listening to hip-hop. Maybe I'm missing something here. But I just don't feel the least bit threatened by immigrants.

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Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth.

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The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.

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