"Tyranny seldom announces itself. ...
In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant.
A whole government, even a democratically elected one, may be 
tyrannical." -- Joseph Sobran (1946- ) Columnist

"If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal.
If you want government to intervene overseas, you're conservative.
If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate.
If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist."
-- Joseph Sobran (1946- ) Columnist 1995

"At the end of a century that has seen
the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies,
the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly persistent."
-- Joseph Sobran (1946- ) Columnist
http://liberty-tree.ca/qb/Joseph.Sobran.Quote.70FC

"All in all, the framers would probably agree that
it's better to impeach too often than too seldom.
If presidents can't be virtuous, they should at least 
be nervous." -- Joseph Sobran (1946- ) Columnist
http://liberty-tree.ca/qb/Joseph.Sobran.Quote.817E

"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
(1946- ) Columnist
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Joseph.Sobran.Quote.4038