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Garet Garrett

Garet Garrett Books

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Garet Garrett was an American journalist and author renowned for his political commentary and economic analysis. Born in February 19, 1878, and passing away on November 6, 1954, Garrett's career spanned several decades, during which he made significant contributions to the understanding of economic and political issues of his era.

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“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?”

People Self Government Able Social Security Produce Live By Social Security Taxation Tolls

Author:Garet Garrett

“There is a long history of monetary experience. It tells us that government is at heart a counterfeiter and therefore cannot be trusted to control money, and that this is true of both autocratic and popular government.”

Heart Long Government Trusted Monetary

Author:Garet Garrett

“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.”

Men Found Natural Design Grew Capitalism Adam Obituary

Author:Garet Garrett

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

People Ifs Long Government Limits

Book:Insatiable Government

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

Government Impulse

Book:Insatiable Government

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“Government is the natural enemy of freedom.”

Government Natural Enemy Natural Enemies

Book:Insatiable Government

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

War Peace Wind Return Blow Billions Theme Anti War Antiwar Scorn Comeback

Book:The People's Pottage

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

World Want War Peace Security War Of The Worlds Anti War Antiwar Top Of The World

Book:The American Story

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

People War Country Facts Peace Acceptance Stranger Anti War Antiwar Passive

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“Business is in itself a power.”

Business Motivational Business

Book:The People's Pottage

Source: The People's Pottage

“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.”

Thinking May Stills Night Song Behinds Revolution Singing Gazing Wrong Direction Singing Songs

Book:The Revolution was

Source: The Revolution was

“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.'”

Ifs Knows May Doe Matter Moments Lying Night Turns Asks Voice Answers Boundaries Empires Republic Strokes Precise Entering Crossings Day And Night Irreversible

Book:Rise of Empire

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“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.”

People Knows Hands Government Choices Republican Vote Mortals Empires Representatives Limited Government Enmity

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“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.”

Might Moving Deals Forever Impossible Happened Prove Finals Debate Endless Recovery Bitter Controversy Retard New Deal

Book:The Revolution was

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“The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy.”

World Ideas Force Fantasy Universal Barbarians Imposing

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“The New Deals enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.”

Deals Capitalism Fundamentals Enterprise Enmity New Deal Private Enterprise

Book:The Revolution was

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“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.”

World Want Needs Government Purpose Values Paper Gold Currency

Book:The Revolution was

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“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.”

Ifs States Government Names United United States Pieces Paper Corporations Ties Engraved

Book:The People's Pottage

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

Social Justice Deals Economic Ideals Income Social Service New Deal Economic Justice

Book:The Revolution was

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

Cases Modern Revolution Idolatry Uncouth

Book:The American Story

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“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.”

Mind Firsts Has Beens Views Rich Incredibles China Revolutionary Squash Vistas

Book:The People's Pottage

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

People Government Responsibility

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“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.”

Ifs Has Beens Might Ten Bills Dollars Spending Might Have Been Consumed Formation Dollar Bills

Book:The People's Pottage

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“It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.”

Law President Principles Function Executives Representing

Book:The Revolution was

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

Knows Theorists

Book:The People's Pottage

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“Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.”

Law Political Father Danger Loyalty Executives Executive Power Law Making

Book:The Revolution was

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“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.”

Ifs Two Problem Interest Class Economic Theory Solutions Difficulty Revolutionary

Book:The Revolution was

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“Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.”

Book:The People's Pottage

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“You do not defend a world that is already lost.”

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About the Author

Born: February 19, 1878
Died: November 6, 1954
Known for: Journalist
Quotes: 29

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