Garet Garrett famous quotes

03-28-2025

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.
-- Garet Garrett

#Government #Names #United States
Business is in itself a power.
-- Garet Garrett

#Business
Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.
-- Garet Garrett

#Revolution #Modern #Cases
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.
-- Garet Garrett

#Views #Squash #Mind
Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.
-- Garet Garrett

#Responsibility #Government #People
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

#Dollar Bills #Dollars #Might
It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
-- Garet Garrett

#Law #President #Principles
Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
-- Garet Garrett
Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.
-- Garet Garrett

#Loyalty #Father #Law
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.
-- Garet Garrett

#Class #Two #Problem
Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.
-- Garet Garrett

#Doubt #Wells
The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.
-- Garet Garrett

#Justice #Income #Economic
The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.
-- Garet Garrett

#War #Blow #Wind
Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.
-- Garet Garrett

#War #World #Want
With no notice to the American people...this country entered the war...Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it.
-- Garet Garrett

#Country #War #Acceptance
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.
-- Garet Garrett

#Song #Night #Thinking
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 day and night: the precise moment does not matter. There was no painted sign to say: 'You are now entering Imperium.' Yet it was a very old road and the voice of history was saying: 'Whether you know it or not, the act of crossing may be irreversible.' And now, not far ahead, is a sign that reads: 'No U-turns.'
-- Garet Garrett

#Lying #Night #Voice
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.
-- Garet Garrett

#Government #Hands #People
There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or ***** 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.
-- Garet Garrett

#Moving #Recovery #Forever
The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy.
-- Garet Garrett

#Ideas #World #Barbarians
The New Deals enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
-- Garet Garrett

#Fundamentals #Enmity #Enterprise
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.
-- Garet Garrett

#Government #Gold #Needs
You do not defend a world that is already lost.
-- Garet Garrett

#World #Lost

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