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The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic QUOTES

The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic QUOTES

1 " It is folly to believe that Congress and the president, on their own, will make the necessary and difficult decisions to address the impending financial debacle. After all, they and their predecessors engineered the approaching tsunami. As the situation becomes direr, the federal government's actions will grow more oppressive. "

― Mark R. Levin , The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic

2 " And it makes you wonder—how can a people incapable of selecting their own lightbulbs and toilets possess enough competence to vote for their own rulers and fill out complicated tax returns? "

― Mark R. Levin , The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic

3 " Class warfare or soaking the so-called rich may make for good populist demagoguery and serve the political ends of the governing masterminds, but it does nothing to solve the grave realities of the federal government's insatiable appetite for spending and its inability to reform itself. "

― Mark R. Levin , The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic

4 " Consequently, citizen legislators, rotating back to their communities after a short period of public service—considered an indispensable and routine characteristic and design of representative government at the time of the founding, and for a century thereafter—have been replaced with a professional ruling class led by governing masterminds. For the most part, they are isolated from the communities from which they hail and are consumed with the daily jockeying for position and power within their ranks. Moreover, they both pander to and lord over their constituents. "

― Mark R. Levin , The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic

5 " What was to be a relatively innocuous federal government, operating from a defined enumeration of specific grants of power, has become an ever-present and unaccountable force. It is the nation’s largest creditor, debtor, lender, employer, consumer, contractor, grantor, property owner, tenant, insurer, health-care provider, and pension guarantor. Moreover, with aggrandized police powers, what it does not control directly it bans or mandates by regulation. "

― Mark R. Levin , The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic

6 " America has never been a pure democracy and majoritarianism has always been as much feared as monarchism. "

― Mark R. Levin , The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic

7 " It requires emphasis that the states established the American Republic and, through the Constitution, retained for themselves significant authority to ensure the republic's durability. This is not to say that the states are perfect governing institutions. Many are no more respectful of unalienable rights than is the federal government. But the issue is how best to preserve the civil society in a world of imperfect people and institutions. The answer, the Framers concluded, is to diversify authority with a combination of governing checks, balances, and divisions, intended to prevent the concentration of unbridled power in the hands of a relative few imperfect people. "

― Mark R. Levin , The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic

8 " Today Congress operates not as the Framers intended, but in the shadows, where it dreams up its most notorious and oppressive laws, coming into the light only to trumpet the genius and earnestness of its goings-on and to enable members to cast their votes. The people are left lamebrained and dumbfounded about their "representatives'" supposed good deeds, which usually take the form of omnibus bills numbering in hundreds if not thousands of pages, and utterly clueless about the effects these laws have on their lives. Of course, that is the point. The public is not to be informed but indoctrinated, manipulated and misled. "

― Mark R. Levin , The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic

9 " It turns out that justices are also God’s children; and being of this world, their makeup consists of actual flesh and blood. They are no more noble or virtuous than the rest of us, and in some cases less so, as they suffer from the usual human imperfections and frailties. And the Court’s history proves it. "

― Mark R. Levin , The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic

10 " The Seventeenth Amendment serves not the public's interest but the interests of the governing masterminds and their disciples. Its early proponents advanced it not because they championed 'democracy' or the individual, but because they knew it would be one of several important mechanisms for empowering the federal government and unraveling constitutional republicanism. "

― Mark R. Levin , The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic

11 " The nation has entered an age of post-constitutional soft tyranny. As French thinker and philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville explained presciently, “It covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd. "

― Mark R. Levin , The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic

12 " When legislative power is united with executive power in a single person or in a simple body of magistracy, there is no liberty, because one can fear that the same monarch or senate that makes tyrannical laws will execute them tyrannically. . . . "

― Mark R. Levin , The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic

13 " Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have with others the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps . . . and their power the more dangerous as they are in office for life "

― Mark R. Levin , The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic

14 " not meant to serve the political expedients of a class of governing masterminds and their fanatical followers. "

― Mark R. Levin , The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic

15 " The Colorado secretary of state testified before Congress in 2011 that a check of voter registration rolls against state [Division of Motor Vehicles] records indicated that more than 11,000 Colorado registered voters may not be U.S. citizens—and more than 5,000 of them voted.”54 "

― Mark R. Levin , The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic

16 " [T]o consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine "

― Mark R. Levin , The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic

17 " From 1836 to 1868, only one candidate was elected to the presidency more than once—Abraham Lincoln. "

― Mark R. Levin , The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic

18 " During the 25 elections between 1850 and 1898 . . . turnover averaged 50.2 percent. On average, more than half the House during any given session in the second half of the nineteenth century was made up of first term members. "

― Mark R. Levin , The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic