Garet Garrett Quotes

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Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.

Garet Garrett
The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.

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If people cannot limit government they will not for long be free.

Garet Garrett
There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did.

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If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't.

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Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.

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Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.

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Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.

Garet Garrett
There is in government a living impulse to extend itself indefinitely; and there is in freedom a necessity to resist that impulse.

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This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.

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To the revolutionary mind the American vista must have been almost as incredible as Genghis Khan's first view of China - so rich, so soft, so unaware.

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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

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No government can provide social security. It is not in the nature of government to be able to provide anything. Government itself is not self-supporting. It lives by taxation. Therefore, since it cannot provide for itself but by taking toll of what the people produce, how can it provide social security for the people?

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Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.

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If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds.

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Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand, there is mortal enmity. Either one must forbid the other or one will destroy the other. That we know. Yet never has the choice been put to a vote of the people.

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The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.

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There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road. But they are gazing in the wrong direction. The revolution is behind them. It went by in the Night of Depression, singing songs to freedom.

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The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.

Garet Garrett