Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
Garet GarrettThere is in government a living impulse to extend itself indefinitely; and there is in freedom a necessity to resist that impulse.
Garet GarrettIf 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 GarrettNo government can provide social security. It is not in the nature of government to be able to provide anything. Government itself is not self-supporting. It lives by taxation. Therefore, since it cannot provide for itself but by taking toll of what the people produce, how can it provide social security for the people?
Garet Garrett