4 Quotes by Garet Garrett about government


  • Author Garet Garrett
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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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  • Author Garet Garrett
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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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