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.
Garet GarrettThe New Deals enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
Garet GarrettFormerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.
Garet GarrettThere 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