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

Business is in itself a power.
Garet Garrett

Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.
Garet Garrett

Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.
Garet Garrett

Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.
Garet Garrett

You do not defend a world that is already lost.
Garet Garrett

It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
Garet Garrett

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