Mark R. Levin

“Locke said, as have others, that natural law is forever and enduring, and man-made law, which may vary from place to place…

— Mark R. Levin

“Again, for Wilson and the progressives, the American founding was simply a historical event distinct to its own moment and condition. Progress…

— Mark R. Levin

“In utopia, rule by masterminds is both necessary and necessarily primitive, for it excludes so much that is known to man and…

— Mark R. Levin

“THE END OF THE nineteenth century saw the rise of a movement thoroughly hostile to the underlying principles of the nation’s founding—the…

— Mark R. Levin

“Dewey was a stern critic of capitalism and private property rights, which he condemned as a relic of early American principles reinforced…

— Mark R. Levin

“Especially threatening, therefore, are the industrious, independent, and successful, for they demonstrate what is actually possible under current societal conditions—achievement, happiness, and…

— Mark R. Levin

“For Croly, the entire process of popular sovereignty exercised through representative republicanism, which led to the drafting, adoption, and ratification of the…

— Mark R. Levin

“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

“Herbert Croly (1869–1930) was among the leading academic and progressive thinkers.”

— Mark R. Levin

“In a recurring theme among progressives, Croly condemned the Constitution’s separation of powers, a doctrine essential to averting centralized tyranny, as the…

— Mark R. Levin

“The danger of rejecting America’s founding principles is illustrated best in this instance by Wilson himself. As is well documented, Wilson was…

— Mark R. Levin

“if our rights are not unalienable, if they don’t come from a source higher than ourselves, then they’re malleable at the will…

— Mark R. Levin

“Cicero argues that the source of justice, truth, virtue, etc.—in a word, morality—is natural law. It is permanent and supreme, unalterable by…

— Mark R. Levin

“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

“In the civil society, the individual is recognized and accepted as more than an abstract statistic or faceless member of some group;…

— Mark R. Levin

“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

“The latest Congressional Budget Office figures show that the top 1 percent of income earners in the United States paid 39 percent…

— Mark R. Levin

“Today Congress operates not as the Framers intended, but in the shadows, where it dreams up its most notorious and oppressive laws,…

— Mark R. Levin

“But if a long train of abuses, prevarications, and artifices, all tending the same way, make the design visible to the people,…

— Mark R. Levin

“Dewey insisted that the present attachment to the principles and values of the American founding must be repudiated and replaced with the…

— Mark R. Levin

“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

“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

“Progressivism was imported from Europe and would result in a radical break from America’s heritage. In fact, it is best described as…

— Mark R. Levin

“It requires emphasis that the states established the American Republic and, through the Constitution, retained for themselves significant authority to ensure the…

— Mark R. Levin

“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