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
Garet Garrett quotes about
government names united-states
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.
ideas world barbarians
The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy.
government enemy natural
Government is the natural enemy of freedom.
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 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 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?
government long people
If people cannot limit government they will not for long be free.
world lost
You do not defend a world that is already lost.
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.
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.
enmity fundamentals enterprise
The New Deals enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
call enmity enterprise private
The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.