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Garet Garrett Quotes

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.

Garet Garrett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 19, 1878 - November 6, 1954

Topics

Great Purpose Government Value Gold

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

John Ciardi

Money Rich Ancestors Over Gone Left

I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did.

John Lee Hooker

Work Me Night Remember Back Know

I'm running for controller to ensure our government reflects the values of the people of California and increases prosperity by managing our finances smartly, efficiently and effectively.

John Perez

Government People Values Prosperity

The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

Stuart Chase

People Looking Why Lord Common Made

I succumbed to hedonism.

Going into auditions, there is a wonderful butterfly feeling in your stomach - an equal balance of being utterly terrified and exhilarated that this is your chance.

Rose Leslie

Butterfly Balance Chance Feeling

I got a guitar when I was six and, instead of learning other people's songs, started to try to write my own, even at that young age.

Russell Crowe

Learning Age People Guitar Young

Continuing to grow and continuing to improve is my main goal.

Jared Goff

Grow Goal Improve Continuing Main

I had stage fright for years and years, and I could hear it in my singing. But since I've done it so often for so many years, you'd think that I'd relax a little bit, and I think that I have.

Johnny Mathis

Relax Singing Think You Done Stage

The death of compromise has become a threat to our nation as we confront crucial issues such as the debt ceiling and that most basic of legislative responsibilities: a federal budget. At stake is the very meaning of what had once seemed unshakable: 'the full faith and credit' of the U.S. government.

Deborah Tannen

Faith Death Government Compromise

Success can be a very difficult thing to deal with.

Christian Slater

Success Difficult Deal Very Thing