Famous Quotes:
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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."
â?? 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
"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
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