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.
ideas world barbarians
The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy.
war world want
Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.
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.
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.
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.
knows theorists
Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.