There was endless controversy ...

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

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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?
 Garet Garrett
With no notice to the American people...this country entered the war...Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it.
 Garet Garrett