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The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.

~Garet Garrett

Topics: Call Capitalism Competitive Deal Enmity Enterprise Free Fundamental New Private System Which

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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

Topics: Almost American Been China First Incredible Khan Mind Must Revolutionary Rich Soft Unaware View Vista

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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

Topics: Antagonistic Classes Difficulty Economic Find Interests Problem Revolutionary Right Solution Theory Two Which

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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.

~Garet Garrett

Topics: Acts Actually Because Bitter Come Controversy Could Deal Debate Did Endless Ever Final Forever Happened Impossible Might Move New New Deal Nothing Place Prove Recovery Retard Whether

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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

Topics: Astonish Currency Did Doing Fictitious Gold Government Great Need Own Paper Paying Price Purpose Spectacle Value Want World

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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

Topics: Bank Because Bonds Corporation Government Great Name Paper Piece Private States Take United United States Were Words Would

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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

Topics: Been Bill Capital Consumed Dollar Dollars Formation Immediately Instead Might Put Represents Rug Something Spending Ten Worth You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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