“Equality, as understood by the American Founders, is the natural right of every individual to live freely under self-government, to acquire and… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“Lincoln embraced the Declaration of Independence before and during the Civil War to justify both prosecuting the war and abolishing slavery, Wilson… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“Locke said that there is a circle of freedom surrounding each person and all people at birth. And within that circle is… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“coercive redistribution of wealth through government’s abuse of law and misapplication of rights destroys individual liberty; ambition, productivity, and wealth; and the… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“The banishment of the Constitution and republicanism, like the disembowelment of the Declaration of Independence and individualism, has been scrupulous. There is… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“Utopianism also finds a receptive audience among the society's disenchanted, disaffected, dissatisfied, and maladjusted who are unwilling or unable to assume responsibility… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“There are also those who delusively if not enthusiastically surrender their liberty for the mastermind’s false promises of human and societal perfectibility.… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“John Dewey (1859–1952), among the foremost progressive thinkers. Dewey, like Croly and Wilson, among others, claimed that progressivism was, in essence, a… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“Locke said, as have others, that natural law is forever and enduring, and man-made law, which may vary from place to place and time… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“Again, for Wilson and the progressives, the American founding was simply a historical event distinct to its own moment and condition. Progress requires that… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“In utopia, rule by masterminds is both necessary and necessarily primitive, for it excludes so much that is known to man and about man.… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“THE END OF THE nineteenth century saw the rise of a movement thoroughly hostile to the underlying principles of the nation’s founding—the “Progressive Movement.” — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“Dewey was a stern critic of capitalism and private property rights, which he condemned as a relic of early American principles reinforced in current… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“Especially threatening, therefore, are the industrious, independent, and successful, for they demonstrate what is actually possible under current societal conditions—achievement, happiness, and fulfillment—thereby contradicting… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“For Croly, the entire process of popular sovereignty exercised through representative republicanism, which led to the drafting, adoption, and ratification of the United States… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“Equality, as understood by the American Founders, is the natural right of every individual to live freely under self-government, to acquire and retain the… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“Herbert Croly (1869–1930) was among the leading academic and progressive thinkers.” — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“In a recurring theme among progressives, Croly condemned the Constitution’s separation of powers, a doctrine essential to averting centralized tyranny, as the main obstacle… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“The danger of rejecting America’s founding principles is illustrated best in this instance by Wilson himself. As is well documented, Wilson was an open… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“if our rights are not unalienable, if they don’t come from a source higher than ourselves, then they’re malleable at the will of the… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
