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Business is in itself a power.
Garet Garrett
Business, Power
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
Great, Government, Words
Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.
Garet Garrett
Security, Top
Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.
Garet Garrett
Government, Formerly
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
Put, Worth, Might
It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
Garet Garrett
President, Laws, Principle
Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
Garet Garrett
Power, Greatest, After
Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.
Garet Garrett
Power, Loyalty, Political
Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.
Garet Garrett
Business, Revolution, Longer
The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.
Garet Garrett
Justice, Social, Economic
The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
Garet Garrett
Free, Call, System
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.
Garet Garrett
Great, Government, Purpose
The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.
Garet Garrett
Away, Return, Blow
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.
Garet Garrett
Nothing, Impossible, Place
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
Two, Find, Problem
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.
Garet Garrett
Mind, Rich, American
Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.
Garet Garrett
Freedom, Doubt, Free
You do not defend a world that is already lost.
Garet Garrett
Lost, Defend

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Nationality: American
Born: 1878
Died: 1954

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