Mark R. Levin

“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

“By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways, as there are floating…

— Mark R. Levin

“Utopianism's equality is intolerant of diversity, uniqueness, debate, etc., for utopianism's purpose requires a singular focus. There can be no competing voices…

— Mark R. Levin

“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

“Natural law is superior to, and precedes, political and governmental institutions.”

— Mark R. Levin

“Wilson insisted that the centralized administrative state must, by logic and necessity, replace or thoroughly alter the constitutional structure—particularly the Framers’ incorporation…

— Mark R. Levin

“Of course, the irony is that the kind of centralized administrative state Croly advocated, and which surrounds us today and is managed…

— Mark R. Levin

“The prominent British statesman and scholar Edmund Burke (1729–1797) emphasized another fundamental characteristic of the civil society—valuing human experience, tradition, and custom.…

— Mark R. Levin

“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

“For the progressive, the answer is the centralized administrative state, where the individual is coerced in infinite ways, as willed by the…

— Mark R. Levin

“Like the Founders, the Conservative also recognizes in society a harmony of interests, as Adam Smith put it, and rules of cooperation…

— Mark R. Levin

“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

“Let us remember, for the progressive, historical progress is said to be a process of never-ending cultural and societal adjustments intended to…

— Mark R. Levin

“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

“And there will not be different laws at Rome and at Athens, or different laws now and in the future, but one…

— Mark R. Levin

“In other words, the fact that every person has the ability to reason and discover natural law, and the divine rights that…

— Mark R. Levin

“And the people cannot be bothered with administration, for not only are they too busy, but they are simply unfit for and…

— Mark R. Levin

“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

“The framers assumed no general right to privacy because, to state the obvious, criminal and evil acts can be committed in privacy.…

— Mark R. Levin

“Still, Tocqueville knew that the governing despotism of which he wrote, and which can accurately and broadly be characterized as utopianism, is,…

— Mark R. Levin

“Wilson argued further, as he had to, that the federal courts are not bound to the Constitution. “The weightiest import of the…

— Mark R. Levin

“Hence the American heritage and founding principles must be thrust aside if there is to be human progress. They are dismissed as…

— Mark R. Levin

“It was an organization of obstacles and precautions—based at bottom on a profound suspicion of human nature.”11 Furthermore,”

— Mark R. Levin

“genuine individualism and constitutional republicanism, the latter two being obstacles to a centralized state in which it is claimed that governing authority…

— Mark R. Levin

“valuing human experience, tradition, and custom.”

— Mark R. Levin