— On big government: “Freedom has ceased to be a birthright; it has come to mean whatever we are still permitted to do.”

I am currently reading a collection of his columns “Subtracting Christianity”. I recommend it.

http://fgfbooks.com/AnnCoulter/2017/AnnCoulter170930.html

The G.K. Chesterton of our time, Joe could deliver a knockout punch with a single line. Many of his aphorisms were so catchy that everyone repeats them now without realizing their provenance.

My friend Joe Sobran died last Thursday, and the world lost its greatest writer.

It was Joe who came up with the apocryphal New York Timesheadline: “New York Destroyed by Earthquake; Women and Minorities Hit Hardest.”
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