Garet Garrett Quotes

With no notice to the American people ... this country entered the war ... Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it.

Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.

If people cannot limit government they will not for long be free.

Business is in itself a power.

Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.

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 of what the people produce, how can it provide social security for the people?

Never was it [Capitalism] imposed on life as a system, or at all. It grew out of life, not all at once but gradually, and is therefore one of the great natural designs. When it was found and identified by such men as Adam Smith, who wrote its bible, and Karl Marx, who wrote its obituary too soon, it was already working.

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.

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.

Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.

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.

The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.

Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.

The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.

Government is the natural enemy of freedom.

There is in government a living impulse to extend itself indefinitely; and there is in freedom a necessity to resist that impulse.

The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.

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 happened in place of what did.