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"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it
is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
- George Washington
"I am convinced that those societies (such as the Native American peoples)
which live without government enjoy in their general mass an infinitely
greater degree of happiness than those who live under the European
governments. Among the former, public opinion is in the place of law, &
restrains morals as powerfully as laws ever did anywhere. Among the latter,
under pretence of governing they have divided their nations into two
classes, wolves & sheep. I do not exaggerate."
- Thomas Jefferson
"The modern theory of the perpetuation of debt has drenched the earth with
blood, and crushed its inhabitants under burdens ever accumulating."
- Thomas Jefferson
"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed
corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of
strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country."
- Thomas Jefferson
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties
than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that
has set the government at defiance. The issuing power (of money) should be
taken away from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly
belongs."
- Thomas Jefferson
"The system of banking we have both equally and ever reprobated. I
contemplate it as a blot left in all our constitutions, which, if not
covered, will end in their destruction. I sincerely believe, with you...that
the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of
funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."
- Thomas Jefferson
"To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the
powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no
longer susceptible of any definition. The incorporation of a bank, and the
powers assumed by this bill [chartering the first Bank of the United States]
have not, in my opinion, been delegated to the United States by the
Constitution. They are not among the powers specially enumerated."
- Thomas Jefferson
"I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution
-taking from the Federal government their power of borrowing (from
privately-owned corporate banks)."
- Thomas Jefferson
"We are undone, my dear sir, if legislation is still permitted which makes
our money, much or little, real or imaginary, as the moneyed interests shall
choose to make it."
- Thomas Jefferson
"All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from
defects in the Constitution or confederation, not from want of honor or
virtue, as much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit,
and circulation."
- John Adams
"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people,
who have a right...and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a
right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most
dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct
of their rulers."
- John Adams
"We, the People, are the rightful masters of both the Congress and the
Courts. Not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who have
perverted it."
- Abraham Lincoln
"I have two great enemies, the southern army in front of me and the
financial institutions in the rear. Of the two, the one in the rear is the
greatest enemy. The money power preys upon the nation in times of peace, and
conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than
monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It
denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light
upon its crimes."
- Abraham Lincoln
"The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and
credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the
buying power of consumers. The privilege of creating and issuing money is
not only the supreme prerogative of Government, but it is the Government's
greatest creative opportunity. By the adoption of these principles...the
taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest [by not having to borrow
from privately-owned corporate banks]...Money will cease to be master and
become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money
power."
- Abraham Lincoln
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes
me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been
enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money
power of the country will endeavour to prolong its reign by working upon the
prejudices of the people (e.g., by pitting the cooperation-oriented
political left against the competition-oriented political right), until the
wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few, and the Republic is destroyed. I
feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever
before, even in the midst of the war."
- Abraham Lincoln
"Corporate entities are persons, under the law. They are separate persons
from the very real human persons who own them and run them. We have the
Supreme Court of the United States to thank for this perversion. Through
corruption of our government and courts, corporations subverted their
original intended purpose and acquired the legal status of "natural persons"
while also preserving their limited-liability legal protections (which gives
them more legal powers than citizens have). This subversion was
institutionalized in an 1886 Supreme Court decision of which Justice William
O. Douglas would later write, "There was no history, logic, or reason given
to support that view." Thus corporations gained Bill of Rights protections
and more, even before women and minorities had full protection."
- [Anonymous]
"Unless you become more watchful in your states and check this spirit of
monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges, you will in the end find that
the most important powers of government have been given or bartered away,
and the control of your dearest interests have been passed into the hands of
these corporations."
- Andrew Jackson
"If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it
was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or
corporations."
- Andrew Jackson
"You (International Bankers) are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to
rout you out, and by the Eternal God, I will rout you out. If the American
people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system,
there would be a revolution before morning."
- Andrew Jackson
"The bold effort the present bank has made to control the Government, the
distress it has wantonly produced...are but premonitions of the fate that
awaits the American People should they be deluded into a perpetuation of
this institution [The Bank of the United States], or the establishment of
another like it."
- Andrew Jackson
"History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse,
intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over
governments by controlling money and its issuance."
- James Madison
"Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation and I care not who
makes the laws."
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild international banking
dynasty, 1790
"Whomsoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master
of all industry and commerce and when you realize that the entire system is
very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the
top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression
originate."
- James Garfield
"I am afraid that ordinary citizens will not like to be told that the banks
can, and do, create and destroy money. And they who control the credit of
the nation direct the policy of governments, and hold in the hollow of their
hands the destiny of the people."
- Reginald McKenna, Chairman of the Midland Bank in London
"From the days of Spartacist-Wieshaupt to those of Karl Marx, and down to
Trotsky, Bela Kuhn, Rosa Luxemburg, and Emma Goldman, this world conspiracy
for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society on
the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible
equality, has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played a definite
recognizable role in the tragedy of the French revolution. It has been the
mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th century. And now at
last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the
great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the
hair of their head and have become the undisputed masters of that enormous
empire."
- Winston Churchill in the Illustrated Sunday Herald, February 8, 1920
"Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than
the thinkers and executors of Marxism."
- Lenin
"Marxists can always be relied upon to defend the International Bankers, to
their dying breath, by portraying capitalism as some sort of vague,
accidental ideological abstraction that either everybody or nobody is truly
responsible for, rather than as a very specific, profoundly evil system
perpetrated by very specific individuals, who are acting with full intention
to drain the lifeblood from the Republic until it is dead. This fact alone
should be enough to raise suspicion of the Marxists' real intention, which
seems to be to focus primarily on property-based 'class' conflict without
ever clearly defining the real methods by which the ruling 'class' stays in
power, so that they can attempt to convince the public that these methods
are some kind of magic that only Marxist intellectuals can understand and
con them into replacing the existing tyrannical order with a communist
tyrannical order. The Marxists are totally anti-democratic and seem to truly
envy the money power more than they despise it."
- [Anonymous]
"If I told you I thought the world was controlled by a handful of
capitalists and corporate bosses, you would say I was a left-winger, but if
I told you who I thought the capitalists and corporate bosses were, you
would say I was far right."
- Anonymous Anarchist Black Blocker
"Left and Right are monolithic ideas - colossal, abstract, and, as their
religious origins suggest, cosmic. They are part of the darker side of
humanity that replaces the specific with the general, the personal with the
impersonal. If you wanted to find a way of making certain that people would
have as little as possible in common, there would be no better way than to
divide them, not into ten or three or four, but into two. Dual division
turns the largest possible sections of humanity against one another, often
causing neighbors and compatriots to have nothing to say to one another. No
regeneration of community can begin without a careful demolition of Left and
Right; nor can this tearing down be relinquished to academic abstraction,
technical philosophy, government, corporations, or ideology. Nothing can be
built without a new politics -least of all with a politics that refers
outward to ideas of Heaven and Hell rather than inward to the experience of
daily life."
- Hugh Graham, in his book "The Vestibule of Hell: Why Left and Right Have
Never Made Sense in Politics and Life"
"This isn't just your normal case of shrill, success-hating, bleeding-heart,
eat-the-rich, lawsuit-happy, commie-liberal bed-wetters versus slack-jawed,
pinheaded, war-mongering, Bible-thumping, woman-hating, eco-rapist
knuckle-draggers. But it is politics as usual."
- [Unknown]
"Obviously, neither communism nor fascism has any interest whatsoever in
democracy. True democracy can only emerge from a radically centered
anarchist-libertarian philosophy, which is the greatest enemy of both of
those extremes. The real struggle that is going on is the struggle for
democracy against ALL tyranny, not merely 'class' struggle."
- [Anonymous]
"The world is governed by very different personages to what is imagined by
those who are not themselves behind the scenes."
- Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of Britain
"The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind
the scenes."
- Justice Felix Frankfurter, Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice
"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial
element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the
days of Andrew Jackson."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me
privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of
commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a
power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so
complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when
they speak in condemnation of it."
- Woodrow Wilson, 1913
"The real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a
giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, state and nation. Like the
octopus of real life, it operates under cover of a self created screen...At
the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller Standard Oil interests and a
small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as
international bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers
virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes.
They practically control both political parties."
- John F. Hylan, New York City Mayor, 1922
"The rich will strive to establish their dominion and enslave the rest. They
always did...they always will. They will have the same effect here as
elsewhere, if we do not, by the power of government, keep them in their
proper spheres."
- Gouvernor Morris, head of the committee that wrote the final draft of the
U.S. Constitution
"This (Federal Reserve) Act establishes the most gigantic trust [monopoly]
on earth. When the President (Woodrow Wilson) signs this bill, the invisible
government by the Monetary Power will be legalized. The people may not know
it immediately, but the day of reckoning is only a few years removed. The
trusts will soon realize that they have gone too far even for their own
good. The people must make a declaration of independence to relieve
themselves from the Monetary Power. This they will be able to do by taking
control of Congress. Wall Streeters could not cheat us if you Senators and
Representatives did not make a humbug of Congress...The greatest crime of
Congress is its currency system. The worst legislative crime of the ages is
perpetrated by this banking bill. The caucus and the party bosses have again
operated and prevented the people from getting the benefit of their own
government."
- Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr., 1913
"I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great
industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of
credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our
activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the
worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments
in the civilized world, no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a
government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by
the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men."
- Woodrow Wilson
"If monopoly persists, monopoly will always sit at the helm of government. I
do not expect monopoly to restrain itself. If there are men in this country
big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own
it."
- Woodrow Wilson
"I have never seen more Senators express discontent with their jobs...I
think the major cause is that, deep down in our hearts, we have been
accomplices in doing something terrible and unforgiveable to our wonderful
country. Deep down in our heart, we know that we have given our children a
legacy of bankruptcy. We have defrauded our country to get ourselves
elected."
- Senator John Danforth
"When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the
leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives
is above the hand that takes...Money has no motherland; financiers are
without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain."
- Napoleon
"Capital must protect itself in every way...Debts must be collected and
loans and mortgages foreclosed as soon as possible. When through a process
of law the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable
and more easily governed by the strong arm of the law applied by the central
power of leading financiers. People without homes will not quarrel with
their leaders. This is well known among our principal men now engaged in
forming an imperialism of capitalism to govern the world. By dividing the
people we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions
of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd."
- Taken from the Civil Servants' Year Book, "The Organizer", January 1934
"It [Central Bank] gives the National Bank almost complete control of
national finance. Those few who understand the system [check book money and
credit] will either be so interested in its profits, or so dependant on its
favours, that there will be no opposition from that class, while on the
other hand, the great body of the people, mentally incapable of
comprehending the tremendous advantage that capital derives from the system,
will bear its burden without complaint, and perhaps without even suspecting
that the system is inimical [contrary] to their interests."
- Rothschild Brothers of London, 1863
"...the lord and master of the money markets of the world, and of course
virtually lord and master of everything else. He literally held the revenues
of southern Italy in pawn, and monarchs and ministers of all countries
courted his advice and were guided by his suggestions."
- Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of Britain, describing Baron Nathan
Rothschild in his novel, "Coningsby: Or The New Generation"
"When the conflict with France ended (at the battle of Waterloo) the House
of Rothschild was in control of British finance and was the official banker
of the British Government. This odd financial octopus was acknowledged to be
in some respects the greatest power on the earth and was acknowledged by
some writers as the "Sixth Great Power of Europe"."
- E.C. Knuth, in his book "The Empire of The City"
"The shareholders of these banks which own the stock of the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York are the people who have controlled our political and
economic destinies since 1914. They are the Rothschilds, Lazard Freres
(Eugene Mayer), Israel Sieff, Kuhn Loeb Company, Warburg Company, Lehman
Brothers, Goldman Sachs, the Rockefeller family, and the J.P. Morgan
interests."
- Eustace Mullins, in his book "The Secrets Of The Federal Reserve"
"Bill Gates is not the 'richest man in the world' by a long shot. His 50
billion dollar fortune (give or take) is virtually nothing compared to the
wealth and economic power of the House of Rothschild. Baron Jacob Rothschild
(who controls the Rothschild banking dynasty) is owed approximately half of
the U.S. national debt (which is now some 6 trillion dollars) because the
privately-owned Rothschild Bank and its proxies have a 51 percent ownership
and controlling interest in the U.S. Federal Reserve System; and this 3
trillion dollar amount obviously does not even include the debt that many
other nations ultimately owe to the Rothschild banking network. The interest
payments alone provide the Rothschild Bank with 100 billion dollars per
year. The reason that the Rothschild dynasty remains generally obscure to
the public is because virtually all of their assets are privately-owned and
they are very carefully protected from public scrutiny by various ways and
means. It has been estimated that the House of Rothschild, directly or
indirectly, controls a very substantial portion of the 35 trillion dollars
in total overall spending power that exists in the world today."
- [Anonymous]
"To ignore the pivotal role played by particular individuals who are in
positions of power is to do violence to historical accuracy. A recognition
that the course of economic events can be influenced by individuals who have
the imagination and the power to take advantage of prevailing conditions
does not constitute acceptance of a 'conspiracy' theory of history."
- John Blair, Former Chief Economist for the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on
Anti-Trust and Monopoly
"The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is
perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented.
Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The Bankers own the
earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create deposits,
and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it all
back again. However, take this great power away from them, and all the great
fortunes like mine disappear, and they ought to disappear, for this would be
a happier and better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves
of Bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create
money and control credit."
- Sir Josiah Stamp, President of the Bank of England in the 1920s, the
second richest man in Britain
"A civilization based on a system of parasitic usury economics will
ultimately destroy itself, because fractional-reserve 'banking', combined
with compound 'interest', is truly and totally contrary to the modern
"Establishment" economic theory that it represents some kind of
perpetual-motion machine. Our economic system was not designed to, nor was
it intended to, function honorably for the benefit and general prosperity of
all; it was specifically designed to create a nation of debt slaves under
the control of a molesting central bank. The perpetrators of the system
understand fully that it is finite and must inevitably collapse in a state
of insoluble debt, but by that point they expect to have gained full and
indisputable control over everything. The 450 richest people in the world
have financial assets equal to the combined wealth of the 3 billion poorest;
half of all humanity. The only possible explanation for this is that the
international economic system has been subverted and corrupted by fully
intentional activities, directed towards undermining national governments
and creating institutionalized, privately-owned central banks throughout the
world."
- [Anonymous]
"This is a staggering thought. We are completely dependent on the commercial
banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or
credit. If the banks create ample synthetic money we are prosperous; if not,
we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent money system. When one gets
a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless
position is almost incredible, but there it is. It is the most important
subject intelligent persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so
important that our present civilization may collapse unless it becomes
widely understood and the defects remedied very soon."
- Robert H. Hamphill, Credit Manager, Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank
"The basis of money in today's world is not simply the trading of one thing
of obvious value (say, a gold coin) for another thing of obvious value (for
example, a keg of beer) which, in fact, would be more a form of barter than
a modern day monetary purchase. In the modern economy, the value of money is
based strictly on mutual faith and faith alone - faith in pieces of paper
signed by a central banker as having whatever value he decides to give them,
such as is the case with Federal Reserve Notes. This faith that the paper
has some kind of value is basically a game of "let's pretend" on the part of
the banker supported only by the fact that the banker has seized control of
the government and he will not tolerate any uncontrolled standard of
exchange to compete with his official monopoly of interest-bearing usury
'money'. In essence, this means that every time you spend a Federal Reserve
Note you are making a very profound expression of faith that the central
banker is a kind of 'god' who can create value out of absolutely nothing
because this is his 'holy' privelege. Not only that, but you also become
perpetually, irreversibly indebted to him, as a form of 'worship', for his
creating of the 'money' by the usury that he charges you for this 'service'
(e.g., the U.S. 6 trillion dollar debt). This is capitalism."
- [Anonymous]
"There is a large class of people who believe that paper can be, and ought
to be, made into money without any promise or hope of redemption; that a
note should be printed: "This is a dollar," and be made a legal tender. I
regard this as a mild form of lunacy, and have no disposition to debate with
men who indulge in such delusions, which have prevailed to some extent, at
different times, in all countries, but whose life has been brief, and which
have shared the fate of other popular delusions. The Supreme Court only
maintained the constitutionality of the legal tender promise to pay a dollar
by a divided court, and on the ground that it was issued in the nature of a
forced loan, to be redeemed upon the payment of a real dollar; that is, so
many grains of silver or gold. I therefore dismiss such wild theories, and
speak only to those who are willing to assume, as an axiom, that gold and
silver or coined money, have been proven by all human experience to be the
best possible standards of value, and that paper money is simply a promise
to pay such coined money, and should be made and kept equal to coined money,
by being convertible on demand."
- Secretary of Treasury John Sherman, 1877
"I am firmly of the opinion that there never was a paper pound, a paper
dollar, or a paper promise of any kind, that ever yet obtained a general
currency (as money) but by force or fraud, generally by both."
- John Adams
"If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be
like death to our body politic. This country will crash."
- George Washington
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of
their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, (i.e., the "business
cycle") the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will
deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on
the continent their fathers conquered."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Examining the organization and function of the Federal Reserve Banks and
applying the relevant factors, we conclude that the Federal Reserve Banks
are not Federal instrumentalities...but are independent and privately owned
and controlled corporations...Federal Reserve Banks are listed neither as
'wholly owned' government corporations [under 31 U.S.C. Section 846] nor as
'mixed ownership' corporations [under 31 U.S.C. Section 856]...It is evident
from the legislative history of the Federal Reserve Act that Congress did
not intend to give the Federal government direction over the daily operation
of the Reserve Banks...The fact that the Federal Reserve Board regulates the
Reserve Banks does not make them Federal agencies under the Act...Unlike
typical Federal agencies, each bank is empowered to hire and fire employees
at will. Bank employees do not participate in the Civil Service Retirement
System. They are covered by worker's compensation insurance, purchased by
the Bank, rather than the Federal Employees Compensation Act. Employees
traveling on Bank business are not subject to Federal travel regulations and
do not receive government employee discounts on lodging and services..."
- Lewis vs. U.S., case #80-5905, 9th Circuit, June 24, 1982
"The financial system has been turned over to the Federal Reserve Board.
That Board administers the finance system by authority of a purely
profiteering group. The system is private, conducted for the sole purpose of
obtaining the greatest possible profits from the use of other people's
money."
- Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh Sr., 1923
"Some people think that the Federal Reserve Banks are United States
Government institutions. They are not Government institutions. They are
private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of these United States
for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers; foreign and
domestic speculators and swindlers; and rich and predatory money lenders."
- Congressman Louis T. McFadden, 1932
"The Federal Reserve Bank is nothing but a banking fraud and an unlawful
crime against civilization. Why? Because they "create" the money made out of
nothing, and our Uncle Sap Government issues their "Federal Reserve Notes"
and stamps our Government approval with NO obligation whatever from these
Federal Reserve Banks, Individual Banks or National Banks, etc."
- H.L. Birum, Sr., American Mercury Magazine, August 1957
"A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils. It undermines
the virtues necessary for the support of the social system, and encourages
propensities destructive to its happiness. It wars against industry,
frugality and economy, and it fosters evil spirits of extravagance and
speculation. Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of
mankind, none has been more effectual than that which deludes them with
paper money."
- Congressman Daniel Webster, 1846
"The Federal Reserve banks are one of the most corrupt institutions the
world has ever seen. There is not a man within the sound of my voice who
does not know that this nation is run by the International Bankers."
- Congressman Louis T. McFadden, 1934
"Every effort has been made by the Fed to conceal its powers - but the truth
is - the Fed has usurped the Government. It controls everything here and it
controls all of our foreign relations. It makes and breaks governments at
will."
- Congressman Louis T. McFadden, 1934
"From now on, depressions will be scientifically created."
- Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh Sr., 1913
"The depression was the calculated 'shearing' of the public by the World
Money powers, triggered by the planned sudden shortage of supply of call
money in the New York money market...The One World Government leaders and
their ever close bankers have now acquired full control of the money and
credit machinery of the U.S. via the creation of the privately owned Federal
Reserve Bank."
- Curtis Dall, Franklin D. Roosevelt's son-in-law, as quoted from his book,
"My Exploited Father-in-Law"
"The one who cannot see that on Earth a big endeavor is taking place, an
important plan, on which realization we are allowed to collaborate as
faithful servants, certainly has to be blind."
- Winston Churchill
"Truth is so precious that it must be accompanied by a bodyguard of lies."
- Winston Churchill
"In politics nothing is accidental. If something happens, be assured it was
planned this way."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
"It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is
perceived to be true."
- Henry Kissinger
"For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted
from it's original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a
policy making arm of the government."
- President Harry Truman
"There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its
own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of
national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law
itself."
- Senator Daniel K. Inouye
"The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other
governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret
societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the
last moment upset all the governments' plans."
- Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of Britain, 1876
"It is useless to deny, because it is impossible to conceal, that a great
part of Europe - the whole of Italy and France and a great portion of
Germany, to say nothing of other countries - is covered with a network of
these secret societies, just as the superficies of the earth is now being
covered with railroads."
- Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of Britain, 1876
"Fifty men have run America, and that's a high figure."
- Joseph Kennedy, father of John F. Kennedy, in the July 26, l936 issue of
The New York Times
"Today the path of total dictatorship in the United States can be laid by
strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by the Congress, the President, or
the people. Outwardly we have a Constitutional government. We have operating
within our government and political system, another body representing
another form of government
- a bureaucratic elite." - Senator William Jenner, 1954
"The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing
less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands
able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the
world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by
the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements,
arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the
system was the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a
private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were
themselves private corporations. The growth of financial capitalism made
possible a centralization of world economic control and use of this power
for the direct benefit of financiers and the indirect injury of all other
economic groups."
- Carroll Quigley, Professor of History at Georgetown University in his book
"Tragedy and Hope: A History of The World in Our Time" (Macmillan Company,
1966), highly esteemed by his former student, William Jefferson Blythe
Clinton
"In a small Swiss city [Basel] sits an international organization so obscure
and secretive [that few people know about it]...Control of the institution,
the Bank for International Settlements, lies with some of the world's most
powerful and least visible men; the heads of 32 central banks, officials
able to shift billions of dollars and alter the course of economies at the
stroke of a pen."
- Keith Bradsher of the New York Times, August 5, 1995
"The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is eager to enter into close
relationship with the Bank for International Settlements...The conclusion is
impossible to escape that the State and Treasury Departments are willing to
pool the banking systems of Europe and America, setting up a world financial
power independent of and above the Government of the United States."
- Congressman Louis T. McFadden, Chairman of the House Committee on Banking
and Currency, quoted from the New York Times, June 1930
"Ever since the Civil War, Congress has allowed the bankers to control
financial legislation. The membership of the Finance Committee in the Senate
[now the Banking and Currency Committee] and the Committee on Banking and
Currency in the House have been made up chiefly of bankers, their agents,
and their attorneys...In this way the committees have been able to control
legislation in the interests of the few."
- Congressman Charles A. Lindberg, Sr.
"The Council on Foreign Relations is "The Establishment". Not only does it
have influence and power in key decision-making positions at the highest
levels of government to apply pressure from above, but it also announces and
uses individuals and groups to bring pressure from below, to justify the
high level decisions for converting the U.S. from a sovereign Constitutional
Republic into a servile member state of a one-world dictatorship."
- Former Congressman John Rarick, 1971
"The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is the American Branch of a society
which originated in England [The Royal Institute of International
Affairs]...and believes national boundaries should be obliterated and
one-world rule established."
- Carroll Quigley, Professor of History at Georgetown University
"The Trilateral Commission is intended to be the vehicle for multinational
consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of
the political government of the United States. The Trilateral Commission
represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate
the four centers of power - political, monetary, intellectual, and
ecclesiastical. All this is to be done in the interest of creating a more
peaceful, more productive world community. What the Trilateralists truly
intend is the creation of a worldwide economic power superior to the
political governments of the nation-states involved. They believe the
abundant materialism they propose to create will overwhelm existing
differences. As managers and creators of the system they will rule the
future."
- Senator Barry Goldwater, Republican candidate for President, 1964
"The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world
government combining supercapitalism and communism under the same tent, all
under their control...Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there
is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and
incredibly evil in intent."
- Congressman Larry P. McDonald, 1976, killed in the Korean Airlines 747
(flight KAL007) that was shot down by the Soviets
"In March, 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, shipbuilding, and
powder interest, and their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men
high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most
influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to
control generally the policy of the daily press...They found it was only
necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers. An agreement
was reached; the policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by the
month; an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit
information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial
policies, and other things of national and international nature considered
vital to the interests of the purchasers."
- Congressman Oscar Callaway, 1917
"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as
an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who
dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand
that it will never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest
opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid
similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish
as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another
job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper,
before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the
journalist is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify;
to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his
daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an
independent press? We are the tools and vassels for rich men behind the
scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our
talents, our possibilities and our lives are the property of other men. We
are intellectual prostitutes."
- John Swinton, Former Chief of Staff of the New York Times, called by his
peers "The Dean of his profession", was asked in 1953 to give a toast before
the New York Press Club
"By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly
and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. There is
no subtler, more sure way of overturning the existing basis of society than
to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of
economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner in which
not one man in a million is able to diagnose."
- John Maynard Keynes
"The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which
complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it."
- John Kenneth Galbraith, in his book "Money: Whence It Came, Where It
Went", 1975
"A nation of well informed men who have been taught to know and prize the
rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of
ignorance that tyranny begins."
- Benjamin Franklin
"In the colonies, we issue our own paper money. It is called 'Colonial
Script'. We issue it in proper proportion to make the goods pass easily from
the producers to the consumers. In this manner, creating ourselves our own
paper money, we control it's purchasing power and we have no interest to pay
to anyone."
- Benjamin Franklin, speaking at the London Parliament
"If that mischievous financial policy which had its origin in the North
American Republic [i.e., honest Constitutionally authorized debt-free money]
should become indurated down to a fixture, then that government will furnish
its own money without cost. It will pay off its debts and be without a debt
(to the International Bankers). It will have all the money necessary to
carry on its commerce. It will become prosperous beyond precedent in the
history of the civilized governments of the world. The brains and wealth of
all countries will go to North America. That government must be destroyed or
it will destroy every monarchy on the globe!"
- The Times of London newspaper, opinion-editorial commentary
"The colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other
matters, had it not been that England took away from the colonies their
money, which created great unemployment and dissatisfaction. Within a year,
the poor houses were filled. The hungry and homeless walked the streets
everywhere. The inability of the colonists to get power to issue their own
money permanently out of the hands of George III and the International
Bankers was probably the Prime reason for the Revolutionary War."
- Benjamin Franklin, as quoted from his autobiography
"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the
people themselves, and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise
control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them,
but to inform their discretion."
- Thomas Jefferson
"The high office of President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the
American's freedom, and before I leave office I must inform the citizen of
his plight."
- John F. Kennedy, speaking at Columbia University, 10 days before his
assassination
"The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world
government combining super-capitalism and Communism under the same tent, all
under their control...Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there
is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and
incredibly evil in intent."
- Congressman Larry McDonald, 1976 (killed in plane crash)
"Mr. Greenspan needs to make his decision independent of what I think. I
learned a pretty good lesson during the transition, and that is I commented
out loud about one of the actions he took. That's the last time I'm going to
comment about the actions Mr. Greenspan takes. He's an independent voice,
and needs to be an independent voice."
- [Notional] President George W. Bush, speaking in regards to the Federal
Reserve Board Chairman, 2001
"Those who swallow down usury cannot arise except as one whom Satan has
prostrated by his touch does rise. That is because they say, trading is only
like usury; and Allah has allowed trading and forbidden usury. To whomsoever
then the admonition has come from his Lord, then he desists, he shall have
what is already passed, and his affairs is in the hands of Allah; and
whoever returns to it - these are the inmates of the fire; they shall abide
in it..."
- From the Qur'an, Surah Al-Baqarah
"If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not
be to him an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.
- Exodus 22:25.
Take no usury of him, or increase...thou shalt not give him thy money upon
usury. -Leviticus 25:36-37. Unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury:
That the Lord thy God bless thee.
- Deuteronomy 23:20" - The Bible
"It comes as news to most people to learn that practically all important
ethical teachers - Moses, Aristotle, Jesus, Mohammed, and Saint Thomas
Aquinas, for instance - have denounced lending at interest as usury and as
morally wrong."
- Lawrence Dennis, Saturday Review of Literature 661, June 24, 1933
"The most sinister and anti-social feature about bank-deposit money is that
it has no existence. The banks owe the public for a total amount of money
which does not exist. In buying and selling, implemented by cheque
transactions, there is a mere change in the party to whom the money is owed
by the banks. As the one depositor's account is debited, the other is
credited and the banks can go on owing for it all the time. The whole profit
of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking
business as it exists today. Starting with nothing whatever of their own,
they have got the whole world into their debt irredeemably, by a trick. This
money comes into existence every time the banks 'lend' and disappears every
time the debt is repaid to them. So that if industry tries to repay, the
money of the nation disappears. This is what makes prosperity so 'dangerous'
as it destroys money just when it is most needed and precipitates a slump.
There is nothing left now for us but to get ever deeper and deeper into debt
to the banking system in order to provide the increasing amounts of money
the nation requires for its expansion and growth. An honest money system is
the only alternative."
- Frederick Soddy, Nobel Prize Winner, 1921
"Economic warfare spans political warfare and military warfare and
supersedes both, which are merely tools in the hands of those who are the
masters of economic systems. The public is systematically misled, almost
hypnotically, to believe that no such hidden masters of economic systems
actually exist, or could even possibly exist, and that all of the economic
strife in the world today is strictly the result of unplanned human
incompetence when, in fact, very deliberate economic warfare is being
carried out. Populations struggle to find purely political or military
solutions to their economic problems, or they are manipulated and duped into
giving yet more economic control over to their masters, in the name of
general prosperity, because they do not fully understand the real principles
of economics and banking. The myth of their non-existence is what protects
the hierarchies of the international money cults of the world and allows
them to continue their constant rivalries against one another, and to
maintain their existence at the dire cost of their subject populations."
- [Anonymous]
"I spent 33 years in the Marines. Most of my time being a high-class muscle
man for big business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a
racketeer for capitalism. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international
banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I helped make Mexico and
especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I brought light
to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. I helped
make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to
collect revenue in. I helped in the rape of half-a-dozen Central American
republics for the benefit of Wall Street..."
- Major General Smedley D. Butler, U.S. Marine Corps
"We have about 50% of the world's wealth, but only 6.3% of its
population...Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of
relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of
disparity...To do so, we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and
day-dreaming; and our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on
our immediate national objectives...We should cease to talk about vague
and...unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of living
standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to
have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by
idealistic slogans, the better."
- George Kennan, Director of State Department Policy Planning staff, Truman
Administration, 1948
"Fascism should rightly be called corporatism as it is a merge of state and
corporate power."
- Benito Mussolini
"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of
private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state
itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an
individual, by a group or any controlling private power."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
"A popular government, without popular information, or the means of
acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both.
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. And a people who mean to be their
own Governors, must arm themselves with the power that knowledge gives."
- James Madison
"Information is the currency of democracy."
- Thomas Jefferson
"I may be alone with my thoughts, on my island located on my inland sea.
Previously, I would be helpless to influence my national government. With
the internet, although physically isolated, I can associate with millions
across my country and across the globe. No longer am I one person, and no
government can afford to ignore me. I have become a power block, in both
theory and in fact. Even if I ignore today the ability I now have to
associate with others, no government can afford to ignore the possibility
that someday I may, for some reason, choose to exercise this ability to
associate. The individual, isolated or not, has become important."
- Andrew Grosso, Attorney, Chairman of the ACM Committee on Law and Computer
Technology
"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.
Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise
their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to
dismember or overthrow it."
- Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural
"When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to
dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another,
and...whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends [of
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness], it is the Right of the People
to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its
foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to
them shall seem most likely to effect [provide] their Safety and
Happiness..."
- Declaration of Independence of the American Colonies, 1776
"A Government that makes peaceful revolution impossible, makes armed
revolution inevitable."
- John F. Kennedy
"If you're not ready to die for it, put the word "freedom" out of your
vocabulary."
- Malcolm X
"When the government fears the people, you have liberty; when the people
fear the government, you have tyranny."
- Thomas Jefferson
"...news organizations, and all Americans, in times like these have to watch
what they say and watch what they do."
- Ari Fleischer, White House Press Secretary, September 26, 2001
"It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling
into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from
falling into error."
- Justice Robert H. Jackson, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety [and they will very quickly lose both]."
- Benjamin Franklin
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and
scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it
costs nothing to be a patriot."
- Mark Twain
"It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government."
- Thomas Paine
"Let us disappoint the men who would raise themselves upon the ruin of our
country."
- John Adams
"The perverse deceptiveness characteristic of the individuals who control
the Federal Reserve Bank is readily apparent to those who know the necessary
historical truths. The fact that they adorn their notes with symbols of the
Freemasons and pictures of our national heroes (to help carry on the charade
that the Fed is a government institution), who were actually diametrically
[totally] opposed to the Fed's existence and its type of 'money', is a
mockery that is downright diabolical, and must be the insider's 'joke' of
all time. Unfortunately, the consequences of this colossal con to the
American people, and the entire world, are all too deadly serious. The
Federal Reserve Bank is not federal, is not a reserve, and is not even a
real bank."
- [Anonymous]
"The eyes of our citizens are not sufficiently open to the true cause of our
distress. They ascribe them to everything but their true cause, the banking
system; a system which if it could do good in any form is yet so certain of
leading to abuse as to be utterly incompatible with the public safety and
prosperity. The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility
existing against the principles and form of our Constitution."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Once a nation parts with the control of its currency and credit, it matters
not who makes the nations laws. Usury, once in control, will wreck any
nation. Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to
government and recognized as its most sacred responsibility, all talk of the
sovereignty of parliament and of democracy is idle and futile."
- William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada, 1935
"The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be
fought sooner or later is The People vs. The Banks."
- Lord Acton, Lord Chief Justice of England, 1875
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in
society, they create for themselves in the course of time, a legal system
that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."
- Frederic Bastiat, in his book "Economic Sophisms"
"A lie repeated a thousand times becomes the truth."
- [Unknown]
"The perfect slave is the slave who thinks that he is free."
- [Unknown]
"The truth is always revolutionary."
- Antonio Gramsci
Per the Congressional Record, September 16, 1981:
There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious
beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus
Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being. But like
any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's behalf should be used
sparingly. The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are
not using their religious clout with wisdom. They are trying to force
government leaders into following their position 100 percent. If you
disagree with these religious groups on a particular moral issue, they
complain, they threaten you with a loss of money or votes or both. I'm
frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country
telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe
in 'A,' 'B,' 'C,' and 'D.' Just who do they think they are? And from where
do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me? And
I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every
religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote
on every roll call in the Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them
every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all
Americans in the name of 'conservatism.'
– Conservative Arizona senator and 1964 Republican presidential nominee
Barry Goldwater
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