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Business is in itself a power.
Garet Garrett / Journalist
Business
Motivational Business
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Government is the natural enemy of freedom.
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Government
Enemy
Natural
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You do not defend a world that is already lost.
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Lost
World
Defend
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Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.
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Doubt
Wells
Free
Itself
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Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.
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Cases
Modern
Revolution
Uncouth
Case
Longer
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If people cannot limit government they will not for long be free.
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Government
Long
People
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Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.
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Peace
War
Security
Want
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The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy.
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Barbarians
Ideas
World
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The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.
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Peace
War
Blow
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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Function
Law
President
Principles
Representing
Execute
Executive
Principle
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Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.
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Government
People
Responsibility
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Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
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Knows
Theorists
Lenin
Theorist
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Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.
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Loyalty
Executive Power
Father
Law
Political
Dangers
Executive
Fathers
Foretold
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The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.
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Economic
Economic Justice
Ideals
Income
Justice
New Deal
According
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The New Deals enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
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Enmity
Enterprise
Fundamentals
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The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
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Capitalism
Enmity
Private Enterprise
Competitive
Fundamental
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With no notice to the American people...this country entered the war...Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it.
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Peace
War
Country
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There is in government a living impulse to extend itself indefinitely; and there is in freedom a necessity to resist that impulse.
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Government
Impulse
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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.
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China
Mind
Revolutionary
Squash
Views
Unaware
Vista
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Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand, there is mortal enmity.
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Government
Hands
People
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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.
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Class
Difficulty
Economic
Problem
Revolutionary
Theory
Two
Antagonistic
Classes
Interests
Solution
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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.
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Government
Engraved
Names
Paper
Ties
United States
Bank
Bonds
Corporation
Cynically
Piece
Private
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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.
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Consumed
Dollar Bills
Dollars
Formation
Might
Spending
Ten
Bill
Capital
Dollar
Immediately
Instead
Rug
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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.
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Government
Currency
Gold
Needs
Paper
Great Government World
Astonish
Government Great World
Fictitious
Paper Currency
Paying
Price
Solvent
Spectacle
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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.
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Government
Heart
Long
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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. It went by in the Night of Depression, singing songs to freedom.
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Night
Song
Thinking
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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.
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Bitter
Controversy
Debate
Endless
Forever
Impossible
Moving
New Deal
Prove
Recovery
Retard
Acts
Final
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No 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?
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Government
People
Self
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Never was it [Capitalism] imposed on life as a system, or at all. It grew out of life, not all at once but gradually, and is therefore one of the great natural designs. When it was found and identified by such men as Adam Smith, who wrote its bible, and Karl Marx, who wrote its obituary too soon, it was already working.
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Design
Men
Natural
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We have crossed the boundary that lies between Republic and Empire. If you ask when, the answer is that you cannot make a single stroke between day and night: the precise moment does not matter. There was no painted sign to say: 'You are now entering Imperium.' Yet it was a very old road and the voice of history was saying: 'Whether you know it or not, the act of crossing may be irreversible.' And now, not far ahead, is a sign that reads: 'No U-turns.'
Garet Garrett / Journalist
Lying
Night
Voice
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