“Today Congress operates not as the Framers intended, but in the shadows, where it dreams up its most notorious and oppressive laws, coming into the light only to trumpet the genius and earnestness of its goings-on and to enable members… — 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
