Garet Garrett
Garet Garrett
Garet Garrett, born Edward Peter Garrett, was an American journalist and author, who is noted for his opposition to the New Deal and U.S. involvement in the Second World War...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
CountryUnited States of America
world lost
You do not defend a world that is already lost.
knows theorists
Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
loyalty father law
Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.
class two revolutionary
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.
heart government long
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.
government long people
If people cannot limit government they will not for long be free.
government self people
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?
men design natural
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.
government hands people
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.
government impulse
There is in government a living impulse to extend itself indefinitely; and there is in freedom a necessity to resist that impulse.
government enemy natural
Government is the natural enemy of freedom.
ideas world barbarians
The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy.
law president principles
It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
song night thinking
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.