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Top 25 Myron Magnet Quotes (2025 Update)

Myron Magnet Quote: “This was the ideology of the European enlightened despots of the eighteenth century, especially Prussia’s Frederick the Great, who ruled through a meritocratic class of efficient, educated, benevolent bureaucrats, who, more than ordinary citizens, could divine the spirit of the times and knew which way the arc of history bent, so they could speed it along in the right direction.”

1. “This was the ideology of the European enlightened despots of the eighteenth century, especially Prussia’s Frederick the Great, who ruled through a meritocratic class of efficient, educated, benevolent bureaucrats, who, more than ordinary citizens, could divine the spirit of the times and knew which way the arc of history bent, so they could speed it along in the right direction.”

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Myron Magnet Quote: “Poet Walt Whitman, a Civil War hospital volunteer who later interviewed pardon-seeking Confederates, remarked that “in any other country on the globe, the whole batch of Confederate leaders would have had their heads cut off.”

2. “Poet Walt Whitman, a Civil War hospital volunteer who later interviewed pardon-seeking Confederates, remarked that “in any other country on the globe, the whole batch of Confederate leaders would have had their heads cut off.”

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Myron Magnet Quote: “Our local communities, once vibrantly self-governing, have lost vital autonomy, as the Court has hemmed in their ability to police themselves and regulate their schools, all in the name of atoning for America’s original sin of slavery but in fact harming black Americans more than helping them.”

3. “Our local communities, once vibrantly self-governing, have lost vital autonomy, as the Court has hemmed in their ability to police themselves and regulate their schools, all in the name of atoning for America’s original sin of slavery but in fact harming black Americans more than helping them.”

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Myron Magnet Quote: “It’s hard to count the ways in which the administrative or regulatory state overturns, abolishes, and usurps the Constitution.”

4. “It’s hard to count the ways in which the administrative or regulatory state overturns, abolishes, and usurps the Constitution.”

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Myron Magnet Quote: “Even fervent abolitionists, viewing blacks as equal in rights but inferior socially and culturally, didn’t relish having freedmen come north to live beside them but wanted them to stay down south.”

5. “Even fervent abolitionists, viewing blacks as equal in rights but inferior socially and culturally, didn’t relish having freedmen come north to live beside them but wanted them to stay down south.”

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Myron Magnet Quote: “Though citizens are safe from the government in their homes, the homes themselves are not.” By essentially abolishing the public use clause, the Court has subordinated individual rights to the arbitrary will of the government, Thomas remonstrated. “I do not believe that this Court can eliminate liberties expressly enumerated in the Constitution.”

6. “Though citizens are safe from the government in their homes, the homes themselves are not.” By essentially abolishing the public use clause, the Court has subordinated individual rights to the arbitrary will of the government, Thomas remonstrated. “I do not believe that this Court can eliminate liberties expressly enumerated in the Constitution.”

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Myron Magnet Quote: “Thomas and his siblings constitute a natural experiment in the effects of such a caring, supervised, value-laden upbringing, compared with a more typical poor, fatherless childhood. It is the difference between freedom and victimhood.”

7. “Thomas and his siblings constitute a natural experiment in the effects of such a caring, supervised, value-laden upbringing, compared with a more typical poor, fatherless childhood. It is the difference between freedom and victimhood.”

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Myron Magnet Quote: “What would George Washington – whom the Senate declared didn’t need its approval to dismiss Senate-confirmed executive-branch officers, since he alone was responsible to the voters for their actions – have to say about the civil service rules and union protections that make the whippersnappers so difficult, and often impossible, to fire? Even Franklin Roosevelt thought bureaucrat unions an absurdity.41.”

8. “What would George Washington – whom the Senate declared didn’t need its approval to dismiss Senate-confirmed executive-branch officers, since he alone was responsible to the voters for their actions – have to say about the civil service rules and union protections that make the whippersnappers so difficult, and often impossible, to fire? Even Franklin Roosevelt thought bureaucrat unions an absurdity.41.”

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Myron Magnet Quote: “But after a frustrated Franklin Roosevelt threatened to enlarge the high bench and pack it with his partisans, Justice Owen Roberts, in the infamous switch in time that saved nine, stopped finding New Deal legislation unconstitutional, so that 5–4 decisions against FDR became majority decisions allowing his schemes.”

9. “But after a frustrated Franklin Roosevelt threatened to enlarge the high bench and pack it with his partisans, Justice Owen Roberts, in the infamous switch in time that saved nine, stopped finding New Deal legislation unconstitutional, so that 5–4 decisions against FDR became majority decisions allowing his schemes.”

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Myron Magnet Quote: “The constitutional machinery of limited and enumerated powers, separation of powers, and checks and balances all aimed to prevent such an “improper or wicked project,” and America’s vast size, even in 1787, ensured that a multitude of factions – special interests – would bar any single one from tyrannizing over the others.”

10. “The constitutional machinery of limited and enumerated powers, separation of powers, and checks and balances all aimed to prevent such an “improper or wicked project,” and America’s vast size, even in 1787, ensured that a multitude of factions – special interests – would bar any single one from tyrannizing over the others.”

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Myron Magnet Quote: “As Wilson outlined the concept, the Court would sit as a permanent constitutional convention, continually making and remaking the law, to adapt, in a kind of Darwinian evolution, to changing circumstances. It would make up law, in Chief Justice Earl Warren’s words, according to “the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society.”4.”

11. “As Wilson outlined the concept, the Court would sit as a permanent constitutional convention, continually making and remaking the law, to adapt, in a kind of Darwinian evolution, to changing circumstances. It would make up law, in Chief Justice Earl Warren’s words, according to “the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society.”4.”

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Myron Magnet Quote: “The founders worried constantly about how their envisioned republic might get hijacked, especially by ambitious officials who would transform it into an elective despotism. This is what they meant.”

12. “The founders worried constantly about how their envisioned republic might get hijacked, especially by ambitious officials who would transform it into an elective despotism. This is what they meant.”

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Myron Magnet Quote: “We all learn about how the Constitution’s framers accomplished that delicate balance through the three branches of government and the separation of their powers: democratically elected representatives frame laws to do the voters’ will, which the elected president executes, unless the Supreme Court deems them unconstitutional.”

13. “We all learn about how the Constitution’s framers accomplished that delicate balance through the three branches of government and the separation of their powers: democratically elected representatives frame laws to do the voters’ will, which the elected president executes, unless the Supreme Court deems them unconstitutional.”

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Myron Magnet Quote: “The practice of creating independent regulatory commissions, who perform administrative work in addition to judicial work,” Roosevelt himself admitted, “threatens to develop a ‘fourth branch’ of Government for which there is no sanction in the Constitution.”33.”

14. “The practice of creating independent regulatory commissions, who perform administrative work in addition to judicial work,” Roosevelt himself admitted, “threatens to develop a ‘fourth branch’ of Government for which there is no sanction in the Constitution.”33.”

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Myron Magnet Quote: “This sets the wheels of government moving in reverse gear; the servant becomes the master, and the right to earn a living becomes subject to the servant’s whim and caprice as he professes to apply some vague and variable statutory standard.”

15. “This sets the wheels of government moving in reverse gear; the servant becomes the master, and the right to earn a living becomes subject to the servant’s whim and caprice as he professes to apply some vague and variable statutory standard.”

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Myron Magnet Quote: “There is nothing of democratic self-government in the “command” of this newly hatched, elitist administrative state, of course.”

16. “There is nothing of democratic self-government in the “command” of this newly hatched, elitist administrative state, of course.”

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Myron Magnet Quote: “But that small government of limited and enumerated powers hasn’t operated for nearly a century.”

17. “But that small government of limited and enumerated powers hasn’t operated for nearly a century.”

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Myron Magnet Quote: “James Madison, always at the vortex of the fierce disputes over what measures these enumerated powers implied as necessary and proper, concluded – after serving for a quarter century as a congressman, secretary of state, and president – that the bedrock constitutional principle was simply to ensure that America does not “convert a limited into an unlimited Govt.”

18. “James Madison, always at the vortex of the fierce disputes over what measures these enumerated powers implied as necessary and proper, concluded – after serving for a quarter century as a congressman, secretary of state, and president – that the bedrock constitutional principle was simply to ensure that America does not “convert a limited into an unlimited Govt.”

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Myron Magnet Quote: “Ever since the New Deal, those on the Right have sensed the American polity’s transformation with growing discomfort, but around 2009, when the Tea Party movement mobilized, that discomfort turned to anger.”

19. “Ever since the New Deal, those on the Right have sensed the American polity’s transformation with growing discomfort, but around 2009, when the Tea Party movement mobilized, that discomfort turned to anger.”

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Myron Magnet Quote: “As the founders often cautioned, a self-governing republic doesn’t have a governing class. Part of America’s current predicament is that it now has a permanent, unelected one, unanswerable to the people. Absolutism – soft perhaps, but absolutism nonetheless – has replaced a democratic republic.”

20. “As the founders often cautioned, a self-governing republic doesn’t have a governing class. Part of America’s current predicament is that it now has a permanent, unelected one, unanswerable to the people. Absolutism – soft perhaps, but absolutism nonetheless – has replaced a democratic republic.”

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Myron Magnet Quote: “The Constitution lodges all legislative power in Congress, which therefore cannot delegate its lawmaking function elsewhere. So it’s forbidden for Congress to pass a law creating an independent or executive-branch agency that writes rules legally binding on citizens – for example, to set up an agency charged with making a clean environment and then to let it make rules with the force of law to accomplish that end as it sees fit.”

21. “The Constitution lodges all legislative power in Congress, which therefore cannot delegate its lawmaking function elsewhere. So it’s forbidden for Congress to pass a law creating an independent or executive-branch agency that writes rules legally binding on citizens – for example, to set up an agency charged with making a clean environment and then to let it make rules with the force of law to accomplish that end as it sees fit.”

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Myron Magnet Quote: “Worst of all, the regulatory agencies may presume anyone they charge to be guilty unless he proves his innocence, and he has but limited standing and scope to appeal the agency’s decision to a real court, effectively “making the commission’s decisions on fact final and conclusive,” the ABA objected.”

22. “Worst of all, the regulatory agencies may presume anyone they charge to be guilty unless he proves his innocence, and he has but limited standing and scope to appeal the agency’s decision to a real court, effectively “making the commission’s decisions on fact final and conclusive,” the ABA objected.”

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Myron Magnet Quote: “So too the race-conscious remedies that the Court has sanctioned or imposed have increased social tensions and distorted key civic institutions. Those liberties that the framers thought so absolute that they enshrined them in the Bill of Rights – freedom of speech, especially political speech, and the protection of private property – became negotiable, with the connivance of a Court established above all to protect those constitutional liberties that it would be tyranny to abridge.”

23. “So too the race-conscious remedies that the Court has sanctioned or imposed have increased social tensions and distorted key civic institutions. Those liberties that the framers thought so absolute that they enshrined them in the Bill of Rights – freedom of speech, especially political speech, and the protection of private property – became negotiable, with the connivance of a Court established above all to protect those constitutional liberties that it would be tyranny to abridge.”

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Myron Magnet Quote: “And if Congress can’t delegate the legislative power that the Constitution gives it, it certainly cannot delegate power that the Constitution doesn’t give it, such as the power to hand out selective exemptions from its laws, as agencies do when they grant waivers.35.”

24. “And if Congress can’t delegate the legislative power that the Constitution gives it, it certainly cannot delegate power that the Constitution doesn’t give it, such as the power to hand out selective exemptions from its laws, as agencies do when they grant waivers.35.”

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Myron Magnet Quote: “But since such an institution is made up of imperfect human beings with the same unruly passions as anyone else, “In framing a government of men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.”3.”

25. “But since such an institution is made up of imperfect human beings with the same unruly passions as anyone else, “In framing a government of men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.”3.”

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Myron Magnet Quote: “The serfdom was as much a cultural as an economic matter. “Slavery is so strong that it could exist, not only without law, but even against law,” Frederick Douglass lamented. “Customs, manners, morals, religion, are all on its side everywhere in the South.”

26. “The serfdom was as much a cultural as an economic matter. “Slavery is so strong that it could exist, not only without law, but even against law,” Frederick Douglass lamented. “Customs, manners, morals, religion, are all on its side everywhere in the South.”

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Myron Magnet Quote: “As the American Revolution’s tutelary philosopher, John Locke, had pronounced, the legislative branch has the authority “only to make laws, and not to make legislators” – but that’s just what Congress has done in creating administrative-agency rule makers.”

27. “As the American Revolution’s tutelary philosopher, John Locke, had pronounced, the legislative branch has the authority “only to make laws, and not to make legislators” – but that’s just what Congress has done in creating administrative-agency rule makers.”

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