Garet Garrett (February 19, 1878 – November 6, 1954), 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 World War II.
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.
The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.
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.
With no notice to the American people. . . this country entered the war. . . Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it.
Business is in itself a power.
The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy.
The New Deals enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.
Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.
Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.
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.
Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
Government is the natural enemy of freedom.
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.
Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.
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.
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. '
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.
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.