Globocop Quotes

“America’s founders knew that a country cannot be free and democratic, and also imperialistic. That would put the country in contradiction with itself. It must give up freedom for imperialism, or imperialism for freedom.”
― Mark David Ledbetter, Globocop: How America Sold Its Soul and Lost Its Way

“Switzerland is certainly not known as a haven of crime and danger. In fact, it is one of the safest countries in the world. But almost every household is required by law to keep modern assault weapons and ammunition in the house. Angelo Codevilla in his book Between The Alps and a Hard Place describes some common Swiss scenes.”
― Mark David Ledbetter, Globocop: How America Sold Its Soul and Lost Its Way

“Standing armies threaten government by the people, not because they consciously seek to pervert liberty, but because they relieve the people themselves of the duty of self-defense. A people accustomed to let a special class defend them must sooner or later become unfit for liberty.”
― Mark David Ledbetter, Globocop: How America Sold Its Soul and Lost Its Way

“large democracy like America, if defended by militia, could stay free forever and never give in to the temptation to go on foreign adventures. It would neither have the capacity nor feel the need.”
― Mark David Ledbetter, Globocop: How America Sold Its Soul and Lost Its Way

“They would, of course, use their new power only for the good. But power is insidious. It does not do what you want or expect, or stay only where it has been applied. It seeps into dark cracks and corners. It is pursued by those who should not have it; it turns even those who appear able to wield it for the good into something more sinister than they were before.”
― Mark David Ledbetter, Globocop: How America Sold Its Soul and Lost Its Way

“Where Thoreau knew that state power does not peacefully or voluntarily diminish, Marx justified his appeal for total state power - the dictatorship of the proletariat - with the naive expectation that government would dissolve away into a stateless utopian paradise.”
― Mark David Ledbetter, Globocop: How America Sold Its Soul and Lost Its Way

“You might also say that the soul of a free nation is nurtured and preserved in its militia, as militia defense is the only viable alternative to that bulwark of authoritarian government, standing armies.”
― Mark David Ledbetter, Globocop: How America Sold Its Soul and Lost Its Way

“Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson were ready. They were both crusaders. Roosevelt was also a blatant and enthusiastic imperialist. 1898 is the year America sold its soul.”
― Mark David Ledbetter, Globocop: How America Sold Its Soul and Lost Its Way

“Freedom cannot really be given by one country to another. It must be taken and won by each country, each society, each people for itself.”
― Mark David Ledbetter, Globocop: How America Sold Its Soul and Lost Its Way