It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
About Garet Garrett
Garet Garrett (February 19, 1878 – November 6, 1954), born Edward Peter Garrett, was an American journalist and author, known for his opposition to the New Deal and U.S. involvement in World War II.
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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.
American journalist (1878-1954)
It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
American journalist (1878-1954)
The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.
American journalist (1878-1954)
Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.
American journalist (1878-1954)
The New Deal’s enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
American journalist (1878-1954)
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.
American journalist (1878-1954)
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.
American journalist (1878-1954)
Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.
American journalist (1878-1954)
Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.
American journalist (1878-1954)
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.
American journalist (1878-1954)
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.
American journalist (1878-1954)
The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.
American journalist (1878-1954)
Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
American journalist (1878-1954)
Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.
American journalist (1878-1954)
You do not defend a world that is already lost.
American journalist (1878-1954)
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.
American journalist (1878-1954)
Business is in itself a power.
American journalist (1878-1954)
Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.
American journalist (1878-1954)