Liberty and Tyranny Quotes

“The Conservative does not despise government. He despises tyranny. This is precisely why the Conservative reveres the Constitution and insists on adherence to it.”
― Mark R. Levin, Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

“The Founders believed, and the Conservative agrees, in the dignity of the individual; that we, as human beings, have a right to live, live freely, and pursue that which motivates us not because man or some government says so, but because these are God-given natural rights.”
― Mark R. Levin, Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

“In the civil society, the individual is recognized and accepted as more than an abstract statistic or faceless member of some group; rather, he is a unique, spiritual being with a soul and a conscience. He is free to discover his own potential and pursue his own legitimate interests, tempered, however, by a moral order that has its foundation in faith and guides his life and all human life through the prudent exercise of judgment.”
― Mark R. Levin, Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

“Like the Founders, the Conservative also recognizes in society a harmony of interests, as Adam Smith put it, and rules of cooperation that have developed through generations of human experience and collective reasoning that promote the betterment of the individual and society. This is characterized as ordered liberty, the social contract, or the civil society.”
― Mark R. Levin, Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

“The Conservative may ask the following questions: If words and their meaning can be manipulated or ignored to advance the Statist’s political and policy preferences, what then binds allegiance to the Statist’s words? Why should today’s law bind future generations if yesterday’s law does not bind this generation? Why should judicial precedent bind the nation if the Constitution itself does not? Why should any judicial determination based on a judge’s notion of what is “right” or “just” bind the individual if the individual believes the notion is wrong and unjust? Does not lawlessness beget lawlessness? Or is not the Statist really saying that the law is what he says it is, and that is the beginning and end of it? And if judges determine for society what is right and just, and if their purpose is to spread democracy or liberty, how can it be said that the judiciary is coequal with the executive or legislative branch?”
― Mark R. Levin, Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

“One of the fundamental ways man adapts is to acquire and possess property. It is how he makes his home, finds or grows food, makes clothing, and generally improves his life. Private property is not an artificial construct. It is endemic to human nature and survival.”
― Mark R. Levin, Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

“Equality, as understood by the Founders, is the natural right of every individual to live freely under self-government, to acquire and retain the property he creates through his own labor, and to be treated impartially before a just law.”
― Mark R. Levin, Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

“The Conservative does not despise government. He despises tyranny. This is precisely why the Conservative reveres the Constitution and insists on adherence to it. An “effective” government that operates outside its constitutional limitations is a dangerous government.”
― Mark R. Levin, Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

“The only way that the Treasury can redeem its debt to the Social Security Administration is to borrow the money from the public, run a surplus in its other activities or have the Federal Reserve print the money—the same alternatives that would be open to it to pay Social Security benefits if there were no trust fund.”
― Mark R. Levin, Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

“The latest Congressional Budget Office figures show that the top 1 percent of income earners in the United States paid 39 percent of federal income taxes while earning 18 percent of pretax income and the top 5 percent of income earners paid 61 percent of federal income taxes while earning 31 percent of pretax income. Indeed, the top 40 percent of income earners paid 99.4 percent of federal income taxes. The bottom 40 percent of income earners paid no federal income tax and received 3.8 percent from the tax system. And the middle 20 percent of income earners pay only 4.4 percent of federal income taxes.3”
― Mark R. Levin, Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

“For the Statist, there must be a class struggle and it must be a never-ending struggle, for it is perhaps his most valuable weapon in his war against the individual, the free market, and ultimately the civil society.”
― Mark R. Levin, Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

“Statist, liberty is not a blessing but the enemy. It is not possible to achieve Utopia if individuals are free to go their own way.”
― Mark R. Levin, Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

“here is a better chance of a repository of the kind of wisdom I choose to be governed by among average people than among Ph.D’s at Harvard.”22”
― Mark R. Levin, Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

“The Statist, however, misuses equality to pursue uniform economic and social outcomes.”
― Mark R. Levin, Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

“In 1999, USA Today analyzed the statistical link between CAFE standards and traffic fatalities and reported that “46,000 people have died in crashes they would have survived in bigger, heavier cars…since 1975.”32”
― Mark R. Levin, Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto