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
lying night voice
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.'
call enmity enterprise private
The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
moving recovery forever
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.
doubt wells
Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.
government gold needs
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.
war blow wind
The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.
squash views mind
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.
revolution modern cases
Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.
justice income economic
The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.
enmity fundamentals enterprise
The New Deals enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
country war acceptance
With no notice to the American people...this country entered the war...Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it.
war world want
Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.
responsibility government people
Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.
might bills dollars
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.