American Leviathan Quotes

“we return to the original vision of the Founders? Can we restore the Republic? The answer is quite simple, albeit monumental in application: Break the State. Drain the Swamp. Restore the Republic.”
― Ned Ryun, American Leviathan: The Birth of the Administrative State and Progressive Authoritarianism

“harder. But then Reagan added, “Although no country has come back, I would like us to be the beginning; I would like us to be the first.”7 America was the first ever constitutional republic in the history of the world. Perhaps it can be the first to shake off the shackles of bureaucratic statism. Yet this will only happen if the American people discover the truth and see the world as it truly is: that is the ultimate question that must be answered. Can”
― Ned Ryun, American Leviathan: The Birth of the Administrative State and Progressive Authoritarianism

“We must, however, be honest with ourselves. As President Ronald Reagan pointed out during his administration, in his study of history, “he was not aware of any nation that had turned away from bureaucratic statism after having gone as far as had the United States.”6 He said that nearly forty years ago, and the reinforcing coils of the American Leviathan have been building and strengthening ever since then, making the way back even”
― Ned Ryun, American Leviathan: The Birth of the Administrative State and Progressive Authoritarianism

“positions that a president can place throughout the various departments and agencies inside the executive branch. These positions range from low-level Schedule C appointments (1,300 or so) to of course the secretaries, assistant secretaries, and other higher-level decision-making positions. Every last one of those positions, especially the ones with real decision-making authority (hundreds, but less than a thousand), must be done right.”
― Ned Ryun, American Leviathan: The Birth of the Administrative State and Progressive Authoritarianism

“In every administration there is something called the Plum Book, which lists out roughly five thousand political-appointee”
― Ned Ryun, American Leviathan: The Birth of the Administrative State and Progressive Authoritarianism

“Department of Defense has been unable to pass a single independent financial audit since its first one in 2017, and of the twenty-seven agencies audited within the Department of Defense, only seven received a passing grade.”
― Ned Ryun, American Leviathan: The Birth of the Administrative State and Progressive Authoritarianism

“The annual federal budget for this is monstrosity was $6.1 trillion in 2022, or about 25 percent of our entire GDP.”
― Ned Ryun, American Leviathan: The Birth of the Administrative State and Progressive Authoritarianism

“figure from four years ago is likely low as government continues to grow, with the total in 2024 in all probability closer to 10 million workers for the Leviathan. If one adds state and local government employees, of which there are over 20 million, then you have roughly 30 million government workers in America. That would mean that close to 20 percent of the entire workforce is working, either directly or by contract, for the government.”
― Ned Ryun, American Leviathan: The Birth of the Administrative State and Progressive Authoritarianism

“Nearly 9.1 million workers, comprising nearly 6 percent of total employment in the United States. The figure includes nearly 2.1 million federal employees, 4.1 million contract employees, 1.2 million grant employees, 1.3 million active duty military personnel, and more than 500,000 postal service employees.”2 And that”
― Ned Ryun, American Leviathan: The Birth of the Administrative State and Progressive Authoritarianism

“Nearly 9.1 million workers, comprising nearly 6 percent of total employment in the United States. The figure includes nearly 2.1 million federal employees, 4.1 million contract employees, 1.2 million grant employees, 1.3 million active duty military personnel, and more than 500,000 postal service employees.”2”
― Ned Ryun, American Leviathan: The Birth of the Administrative State and Progressive Authoritarianism

“on, Nineteen Eighty-Four–style world run by bureaucrats who of course, as a cherry on top of their authoritarian groupthink, are fully convinced of their rightness.”
― Ned Ryun, American Leviathan: The Birth of the Administrative State and Progressive Authoritarianism

“manipulated to promote candidates and leaders with the “right ideas.” Narratives considered helpful to the state are promoted. Narratives considered damaging, simply because they’re even mentioned, are suppressed. When indoctrinated Big Tech folks jump in bed with indoctrinated big government types, they give birth to Big Brother: a full-”
― Ned Ryun, American Leviathan: The Birth of the Administrative State and Progressive Authoritarianism

“a Ministry of Truth. They claim this all serves to “protect democracy” and combat “misinformation,” while the corporate propagandists keep pumping and amplifying the Approved Narrative. Suddenly, the free flow of information, ideas, and speech is severely restricted, if it even exists. Algorithms are potentially, probably, manipulated”
― Ned Ryun, American Leviathan: The Birth of the Administrative State and Progressive Authoritarianism

“Suddenly, as if overnight—although of course, like the reinforcing loops discussed earlier, the events were actually set in motion a century ago and are just now exploding into view—you end up with senior executives from Big Tech meeting with senior officials of DHS to discuss the censoring of the American people via what amounts to”
― Ned Ryun, American Leviathan: The Birth of the Administrative State and Progressive Authoritarianism

“the greater world doesn’t completely resemble the dynamics of the colleges and universities. But these indoctrinated generations, now fully invested in the rightness of their ideas, begin working at places like Google, Twitter, and Facebook. Others enter government; others, the corporate propagandist ranks.”
― Ned Ryun, American Leviathan: The Birth of the Administrative State and Progressive Authoritarianism

“its Bill of Rights. Steeped in the belief that the administrative state is the giver and arbiter of rights, with no real concept or appreciation of the idea of natural rights, they then leave their safe spaces and go into the larger world. Miraculously, somehow, even after decades and decades of these bastions of indoctrination existing,”
― Ned Ryun, American Leviathan: The Birth of the Administrative State and Progressive Authoritarianism

“Students, now having been indoctrinated in Progressive Statist ideas from elementary school though high school and into college, are unfamiliar with or even taught to hate the original intent of the Founders’ Constitution and”
― Ned Ryun, American Leviathan: The Birth of the Administrative State and Progressive Authoritarianism

“existential threat to the entire edifice of the administrative state, all because he rejected the premise of it. How did we get here?”
― Ned Ryun, American Leviathan: The Birth of the Administrative State and Progressive Authoritarianism