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.

  Garet Garrett

  Government, Names, Ties

  Garet Garrett (1965). “The People's Pottage”

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• Business is in itself a power.

  Garet Garrett

  Business, Motivational Business

  Garet Garrett (1965). “The People's Pottage”

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• La idea de imponer por la fuerza la paz universal en el mundo es una fantasía bárbara.

  Garet Garrett

  Ideas, World, Barbarians

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• 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.

  Garet Garrett

  Song, Night, Thinking

  Garet Garrett (1944). “The Revolution was”

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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?

  Garet Garrett

  Gobierno, Ser, Personas

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• 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.

  Garet Garrett

  Men, Design, Natural

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• Hemos cruzado la frontera que separa la República del Imperio. Si preguntas cuándo, la respuesta es que no se puede dar una sola pincelada entre el día y la noche: el momento preciso no importa. No había ninguna señal pintada que dijera: "Estáis entrando en Imperium". Sin embargo, era una carretera muy antigua y la voz de la historia decía: 'Lo sepas o no, el acto de cruzar puede ser irreversible'. Y ahora, no muy lejos, hay una señal que dice: "Prohibido girar en U".

  Garet Garrett

  Lying, Night, Voice

  Garet Garrett (1961). “Rise of Empire”

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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.

  Garet Garrett

  Government, Impulse

  Garet Garrett (2008). “Insatiable Government”, p.31, U of Nebraska Press

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

  Garet Garrett

  Gobierno, Largo, Gente

  Garet Garrett (2008). “Insatiable Government”, p.31, U of Nebraska Press

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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.

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  Moving, Recovery, Forever

  Garet Garrett (1944). “The Revolution was”

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• 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.

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  Heart, Government, Long

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• Government is the natural enemy of freedom.

  Garet Garrett

  Government, Enemy, Natural

  Garet Garrett (2008). “Insatiable Government”, p.31, U of Nebraska Press

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

  Garet Garrett

  Responsabilidad, Gobierno, Personas

  Garet Garrett (1965). “The People's Pottage”

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• You do not defend a world that is already lost.

  Garet Garrett

  World, Lost

  Garet Garrett (1965). “The People's Pottage”

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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.

  Garet Garrett

  País, Paz, Guerra

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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.

  Garet Garrett

  Class, Two, Problem

  Garet Garrett (1944). “The Revolution was”

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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.

  Garet Garrett

  Dollar Bills, Dollars, Might

  Garet Garrett (1965). “The people's pottage”, Caxton Printers

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

  Garet Garrett

  Loyalty, Father, Law

  Garet Garrett (1944). “The Revolution was”

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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.

  Garet Garrett

  Gobierno, Manos, Gente

  "The people's pottage".

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• La enemistad del New Deals por ese sistema de empresa privada libre y competitiva que llamamos capitalismo era fundamental.

  Garet Garrett

  Fundamentals, Enmity, Enterprise

  Garet Garrett (1944). “The Revolution was”

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

  Garet Garrett

  Peace, War, Want

  Garet Garrett (1955). “The American Story”, p.393, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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

  Garet Garrett

  Justice, Income, Economic

  Garet Garrett (1944). “The Revolution was”

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• Los vientos que se llevan nuestros miles de millones vuelven cargados de temas de desprecio y menosprecio.

  Garet Garrett

  Peace, War, Blow

  Garet Garrett (1965). “The people's pottage”, Caxton Printers

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

  Garet Garrett

  Law, President, Principles

  Garet Garrett (1944). “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.

  Garet Garrett

  Knows, Theorists

  Garet Garrett (1965). “The people's pottage”, Caxton Printers

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