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It's I politics that men are always aggravating the hopeless tangle of their laws, obscuring the simplest principles and making a mockery of liberty.

Joseph Sobran

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Joseph Sobran
Age: 64 †
Born: 1946
Born: February 23
Died: 2010
Died: September 30
Journalist
Writer
Ypsilanti
Michigan
Making
Mockery
Always
Simplest
Men
Hopeless
Laws
Principles
Liberty
Obscuring
Politics
Tangle
Law
Aggravating

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