Garet Garrett Quotes
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.
The New Deals enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.
It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.
The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.
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.
There is in government a living impulse to extend itself indefinitely; and there is in freedom a necessity to resist that impulse.
With no notice to the American people...this country entered the war...Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it.
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.
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.
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.
Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.