Garet Garrett

“There is no such thing as a collective brain. It is always the individual that thinks.”

“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.”

“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.”

“We have crossed the boundary that lies between Republic and Empire.”

“What the government gives, it must first take away.”

“For the first time in the history of the world a government of the people, by the people, and for the people is in debt to the people.”

“The great and tragic social phenomenon of our time is the passing of the control of human destiny from the individual to the state.”

“Bureaucracy is a parasite that preys on a free economy and is helpless when it has consumed the host.”

“The seed of war is in the passion for security.”

“If you are going to have a planned economy, you have to have a despotic government.”

“A man's right to the fruits of his own labor is a natural right.”

“When a people exchange their freedom for a crust of bread, they have lost their freedom and the bread is insecure.”

“The supreme political achievement of the New Deal was to break down the old American habit of thrift.”