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… — 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
