Liberty and Tyranny (2009) (edit title/settings)

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• Ronald Reagan: Add a description of this character.
• Barack Obama
• Franklin Roosevelt
• Carson
• Johnson
• Daschle
• Clinton
• Barbara
• Burke
• George W. Bush
• Sunstein
• Seager

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• “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 Levin

• “In the civil society <a.k.a. ordered liberty or social contract – ed.>, 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. As such, the individual in the civil society strives, albeit imperfectly, to be virtuous—that is, restrained, ethical, and honorable. He rejects the relativism that blurs the lines between good and bad, right and wrong, just and unjust, and means and ends.”

• “In the civil society, private property and liberty are inseparable. The individual’s right to live freely and safely and pursue happiness includes the right to acquire and possess property, which represents the fruits of his own intellectual and/or physical labor. As the individual’s time on earth is finite, so, too, is his labor. The illegitimate denial or diminution of his private property enslaves him to another and denies him his liberty.”

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• The British writer-philosopher C. S. Lewis wrote, “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”11

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• President Abraham Lincoln encapsulated it well when he said, “Property is the fruit of labor…property is desirable…is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.”68

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• The primary principle around which the Statist organizes can be summed up in a single word—equality.

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• Prudence is the highest virtue for it is judgment drawn on wisdom.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• What belongs to no one is wasted by every one. What belongs to one man in particular is the object of his economy and care.”7

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• As the word “liberal” is, in its classical meaning, the opposite of authoritarian, it is more accurate, therefore, to characterize the Modern Liberal as a Statist.

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• The Modern Liberal believes in the supremacy of the state, thereby rejecting the principles of the Declaration and the order of the civil society, in whole or part. For the Modern Liberal, the individual’s imperfection and personal pursuits impede the objective of a utopian state.

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• A free people living in a civil society, working in self-interested cooperation, and a government operating within the limits of its authority promote more prosperity, opportunity, and happiness for more people than any alternative. Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are the founding principles.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• United States
• Latin America
• Mexico
• Iraq
• India
• Washington
• Africa
• China
• Britain
• Europe
• California
• New York
• New Deal
• Asia
• Australia
• Maryland
• Russia
• Soviet Union

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• GOP: Add a description of this organization.
• DNC

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Mark R. Levin (Author)

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Awards edit see section history

• New York Times Best Seller (2009, #1)
• Nielsen's BookScan (#1)
• Amazon.com's list of bestselling books of 2009 (2009, #2)

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• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 320.520973

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• Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Political Science › Political Doctrines › Conservatism
• Books › Nonfiction › Politics › Political Parties

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