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. — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
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… — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it… — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of… — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
There is in government a living impulse to extend itself indefinitely; and there is in freedom a necessity to resist that impulse. — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because… — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
With no notice to the American people...this country entered the war...Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it. — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the… — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
There is a long history of monetary experience. It tells us that government is at heart a counterfeiter and therefore cannot be trusted to… — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand, there is… — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold. — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
The New Deals enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental. — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
