Garet Garrett Quotes

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• The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.
• Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.
• With no notice to the American people...this country entered the war...Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it.
• Business is in itself a power.
• The New Deals enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• We have crossed the boundary that lies between Republic and Empire. If you ask when, the answer is that you cannot make a single stroke…
• 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…
• 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…
• The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy.
• The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.
• Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.
• 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,…
• Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.
• 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…
• It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
• Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
• Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.

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