“Moreover, the bureaucracy will be of the noblest and most virtuous sort, with no personal, political, or ideological agenda, motivated solely and… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“Like other progressives, Croly proclaimed a new secular “science,” a political and social science in which politicians, bureaucrats, academics, and experts harness… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“But what is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be… — 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
“Natural law is superior to, and precedes, political and governmental institutions.” — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the modern arguments about the necessities and virtues of government control over the individual are but malign echoes of utopian prescriptions… — 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
