“The bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing.” – William Paterson, founder of the Bank of England, 1694
de Tracy
“A
theft of greater magnitude and still more ruinous, is the making of
paper money; it is greater because in this money there is absolutely no
real value; it is more ruinous because by its gradual depreciation
during the time of its existence, it produces the effect which would be
proration of the coins. All those iniquities are founded on the false
idea the money is but a sign.”- Count Destutt de Tracy, 1754-1836
“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, 1732-1799
Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild
“The
few who understand the system, will either be so interested from its
profits or so dependent on its favors, that there will be no opposition
from that class.” . . . “Let me issue and control a nation’s money and I care not who writes the laws.” - Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild, 1744-1812
“All the perplexities, confusion and distresses in America arise not
from defects in the constitution or confederation, nor from want of
honor or virtue, as much from downright ignorance of the nature of coin,
credit, and circulation.” - John Adams, 1735-1826, letter to Thomas Jefferson.
Thomas Jefferson
“If
the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of
their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks…will
deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless
on the continent their fathers conquered…. The issuing power should be
taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly
belongs.” . . . “Paper is poverty. It is the ghost of money and not money itself.”- Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826
“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, 1751-1836
Napoleon Bonaparte
“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 Bonaparte, 1769-1821, a sympathizer for the international bankers, turned against them in the last years of his rule.
“Nothing
but widespread suffering will produce any effect on Congress… Our only
safety is in pursuing a steady course of firm restriction – and I have
no doubt that such a course will ultimately lead to restoration of the
currency and the re-charter of the bank.” - Nicholas Biddle, (1786-1844), Banker and American financier
Andrew Jackson
[Speaking
about international bankers] “You are a den of vipers! I intend to rout
you out, and by the Eternal God I will rout you out. If the people only
understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there
would be a revolution before morning.” .
. . “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.”- President Andrew Jackson, 1829-1837
“A power has risen up in the government greater
than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful
interests, combined in one mass, and held together by the cohesive power
of the vast surplus in banks.” –
John C. Calhoun, Vice President (1825-1832) and U.S. Senator,
from a speech given on May 27, 1836
“The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.” – “Coningsby, the New Generation”, Benjamin Disraeli, first Prime Minister of England, 1844
Daniel Webster
“Of
all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none
has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.”
. . . “We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper,
mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing
nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated
creditors and a ruined people.” – Daniel Webster, circa 1845, leading American statesman
“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.” – Economic Sophisms, Frederic Bastiat 1801-1850
I have two great enemies, the Southern
Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at
my rear is my greatest foe. – Abraham Lincoln
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. As a result of the war,
corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places
will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to
prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all
wealth is aggregated in a few hands, 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 war.” – Abraham Lincoln – In a letter written to William Elkin, 1860
“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. By the adoption of these principles, the
taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be
master and become the servant of humanity. ” – Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865
Asassination
“If
this mischievous financial policy, which has its’ origins in North
America, shall be endured down to a fixture, then that government will
furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off its debt and be
without debt. It will have all the money necessary to carry on its
commerce. It will become prosperous without precedence in the history of
the world. The brains and the wealth of all countries will go to North
America. That country must be destroyed or it will destroy every
monarchy on the globe.” – Editorial in the Times of London, 1862
“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, and more selfish than bureaucracy.” – Abe Lincoln, 1864
Salmon P. Chase
“My
agency, in promoting the passage of the National Banking Act was the
greatest financial mistake in my life. It has built up a monopoly which
affects every interest in the country.” – Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court and Advisor to Lincoln, Salmon P. Chase, 1864
“The
death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There was no man in
the United States great enough to wear his boots…I fear that foreign
bankers with their craftiness and their torturous tricks will entirely
control the exuberant riches of America, and use it systematically to
corrupt modern civilization. They will not hesitate to plunge the whole
of Christendom into wars and chaos in order that the earth shall become
their (the bankers’) inheritance.” – Chancellor of Germany, Otto Von Bismarck, 1865
“I
went to America in the winter of 1872-1873 to secure, if I could, the
passage of a bill demonetizing silver. It was in the interest of those I
represented – the governors of the Bank of England, to have it done. By
1873 gold coins were the only form of coin money.” – Earnest Seyd, Agent for the Bank of England, 1873
Baron Nathan Mayer de Rothschild
“I
care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the
Empire on which the sun never sets. The man that controls Britain’s
money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British
money supply.” Baron Nathan Mayer de Rothschild, 1840-1915
James Buel
“It
is advisable to do all in your power to sustain such prominent daily
and weekly newspapers, especially the Agricultural and Religious press,
as will oppose the Greenback issue of paper money and that you will also
withhold patronage from all applicants (for loans) who are not willing
to oppose the government issue of money…To repel the act creating bank
notes, or to restore to circulation the government issue of money will
be to provide the people with money and will therefore seriously affect
our individual profits as bankers and lenders. See your congressman at
once and engage him to support us, that we may control legislation.” – James Buel, American Bankers Association, 1877
James Garfield
“We
will answer their demand for a gold standard saying to them, ‘You shall
not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall
not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold’.” . . . “The money power denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.”- William Jennings Brian, 1896
William McAdoo
“The
fact is that there is a serious danger of this country becoming a
Pluto-democracy; that is, a sham republic with the real government in
the hands of a small clique of enormously wealthy men, who speak through
their money, and whose influence, even today, radiates to every corner
of the United States.” – William McAdoo, 1912 – President Wilson’s national campaign vice-chairman, wrote in Crowded Years
Woodrow Wilson
“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 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 world – no longer a Government of free opinion no longer a
Government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a Government by
the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men…. Since I entered
politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some
of the biggest men in the U.S., in the field of commerce and
manufacturing, are afraid of somebody, 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 had
better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of
it.” – The New Freedom, President Woodrow Wilson, 1913 (after signing into passage the Glass Owen Act of 1913 that established the Federal Reserve System)
American Bankers Assoc.–still at it in 2008
“On
September 1st, 1894, we will not renew our loans under any
consideration. On September 1st, we will demand our money. We will
foreclose and become mortgagees in possession. We can take two-thirds of
the farms west of the Mississippi as well, at our own price…Then the
farmers will become tenants, as in England.” – 1891 American Bankers Association Memo, recorded as testimony in the Congressional Record, April 29th, 1913
“This
act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the president
signs this bill, the ‘invisible government’ by monetary power will be
legalized. The people may not know it yet, but the day of reckoning is
only a few years removed…The worst legislative crime of the ages is
perpetrated by this banking bill.” – Rep. Charles Lindbergh Sr.
(R, MN), father of the famed aviator, just prior to the passage of the
Glass Owen Act that established the Federal Reserve System.
(The bill was literally snuck through the congress on Dec. 22, 1913.
Many senators had already left for the holidays after being reassured by
the leadership that nothing would be done on the bill until after they
returned from their Christmas recess the following January. All
evidently believed that the congressional session had been legally
retired for their customary holiday break, but this certainly could be
construed as a ruse. And so it transpired that on December 22, 1913,
under the shepherding of President Wilson and certain congressmen of
both sides of the political spectrum, and with at least 27 Senators
absent on holiday recess, the Federal Reserve Act passed. The bill
provided for a privately owned central bank, disguised as the Federal
Reserve System, to not only issue this nation’s currency but to charge
interest against that currency. Today we owe our currant national debt
to the bank corporations that privately own the Federal Reserve Bank,
with the exception, that is, of the debt paper the Fed regularly sells
to other nations like China. The Fed accepts dollar reserves from
foreign customers and sells them US government bonds in return. This is
how the Federal Government borrows from foreign lenders. Some even
suggest this is why we are loosing control of our country.)
Charles Lindbergh Sr.
“To
cause high prices all the Federal Reserve Board will do will be to
lower the rediscount rate producing an expansion of credit and rising
stock market, then when business men are adjusted to these conditions,
it can check prosperity in mid career by raising the rate of interest.
It can cause the pendulum of a rising and falling market to swing gently
back and forth by slight changes in the discount rate, or cause violent
fluctuations by greater rate variation and in either case, it will
possess inside information as to financial conditions and advanced
knowledge of the coming change, either up or down. This is the strangest
and most dangerous advantage ever placed in the hands of a special
privilege class by any government that ever existed. The system is
private, conducted for the sole purpose of obtaining the greatest
possible profits from the use of other peoples’ money. They know in
advance when to create panics to their advantage, and they also know
when to stop panic. Inflation and deflation work equally well for them
when they control finance.” – Rep. Charles Lindbergh Sr. (R. MN), 1914
Lewis McFadden
“Every
effort has been made by the Federal Reserve Board to conceal its power
but the truth is the Federal Reserve Board has usurped the government of
the United States. It controls everything here and it controls all our
foreign relations. It makes and breaks governments at will. No man and
no body of men is more entrenched in power than the arrogant credit
monopoly which operates the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal
Reserve banks. These evil-doers have robbed this country of more than
enough money to pay the national debt. What the Government has permitted
the Federal Reserve Board to steal from the people should now be
restored to the people.”- Rep. Lewis McFadden, (D PA) Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee, 1914
(McFadden rose from office boy to become cashier and then President of
the First National Bank in Canton Ohio. For 12 years he served as
Chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency, making him one of the
foremost financial authorities in America. He fought continuously for
fiscal integrity and a return to constitutional government.)
“They
have created a super state controlled by international bankers and
international industrialists acting together to enslave the world for
their own pleasure.” – Rep. Lewis McFadden, (D PA) Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee, 1914
Oscar Callaway
“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.”- Oscar Callaway, U.S. Congressman, 1917
Theodore Roosevelt
“These
international bankers and Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests control
the majority of the newspapers and the columns in those papers to club
into submission or drive out of office officials who refuse to do the
bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible
government.” – Theodore Roosevelt as reported in the New York Times, March 27th, 1922
“This
warning of Theodore Roosevelt has as much timelessness today, for the
real menace to our republic is this invisible government which spreads
its tentacles like a giant octopus and sprawls its slimy length over
city, state and nation. It seizes in its long and powerful tentacles our
executive officers, our legislative bodies, our schools, our courts,
our newspapers and every agency created for the public protection…To
depart from mere generalizations, let me say that at the head of this
octopus are the Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests and a small group of
powerful banking houses generally referred to as the international
bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually
run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They
practically control both parties, write political platforms, make
cat’s-paws of party leaders, use the leading men of private
organizations, and resort to every device to place in nomination for
high public office only such candidates as will be amenable to the
dictates of corrupt big business. These international bankers and
Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers
and magazines in this country.” – John Hylan, Mayor of New York City, quoted in the New York Times, 1922
“The
real menace of our Republic is the invisible government, which like a
giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation…
The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the
United States government for their own selfish purposes. They
practically control both parties, … and control the majority of the
newspapers and magazines in this country. They use the columns of these
papers to club into submission or drive out of office public officials
who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which
compose the invisible government. It operates under cover of a
self-created screen [and] seizes our executive officers, legislative
bodies, schools, courts, newspapers and every agency created for the
public protection.” -
New York City Mayor John F. Hylan,
New York Times, March 26, 1922
“Capital
must protect itself in every possible manner by combination and
legislation. Debts must be collected, bonds and mortgages must be
foreclosed as rapidly as possible. When, through a process of law, the
common people lose their homes they will become more docile and more
easily governed through the influence of the strong arm of government,
applied by a central power of wealth under control of leading
financiers. This truth is well known among our principal men now engaged
in forming an imperialism of Capital to govern the world. By dividing
the voters through the political party system, we can get them to expend
their energies in fighting over questions of no importance. Thus by
discreet action we can secure for ourselves what has been so well
planned and so successfully accomplished.” - USA Banker’s Magazine, August 25, 1924
Reginald McKenna
“I am afraid the ordinary citizen will not like to
be told that the banks can, and do, create 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, former Chancellor of the Exchequer, January 24, 1924
Henry Ford
“It
is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking
and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a
revolution before tomorrow morning.” - Henry Ford, circa 1925
“I
see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or
warrants pessimism… I have every confidence that there will be a revival
of activity in the spring, and that during this coming year the country
will make steady progress.” —Andrew W. Mellon, December 1929, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
“Sell all of your stock now. Don’t ask any questions.” – Joseph P. Kennedy to his friend, father of Ed Kerrigan, 1929,
(right before the crash. During the Great Depression, Joseph P.
Kennedy’s worth grew from four million dollars in 1929 to over 100
million dollars in 1935. Apparently he had insider information and knew
what the Federal Reserve intended to do.)
“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 system of Europe and America, setting up a
world financial power independent of and above the Government of the
United States….The United States under present conditions will be
transformed from the most active of manufacturing nations into a
consuming and importing nation with a balance of trade against it.”- Rep. Louis McFadden – Chairman of the House Committee on Banking and Currency quoted in the New York Times (June 1930)
Milton Friedman
“The Federal Reserve definitely caused the Great Depression by
contracting Americas’ money supply by one third between 1929 and 1933.”
– Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize winning economist, Stanford University
Louis McFadden
After
WWI, Germany fell into the hands of the German International Bankers.
Those bankers bought her and they now own her, lock, stock and barrel.
They purchased her industries, they have mortgages on her soil, they
control her production; they control all her public utilities. The
International German Bankers have subsidized the present government of
Germany and they have also supplied every dollar of the money Adolf
Hitler has used in his lavish campaign to build up a threat to the
government of Bruening. When Bruening fails to obey the orders of the
German International Bankers, Hitler is brought forth to scare the
Germans into submission. Through the Federal Reserve Board over thirty
billions of dollars was pumped into Germany…You have all heard of the
spending that has taken place in Germany…modernistic dwellings, her
great planetariums, her gymnasiums, her swimming pools, her fine public
highways, her perfect factories….All this was done with our money. All
this was given to Germany through the Federal Reserve Board. The Federal
Reserve Board has pumped so many billions of dollars into Germany that
they dare not name the total.” – Rep. Lewis T. McFadden (D PA), Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee, 1931,
(spoken before Congress eight years before Hitler invaded Poland and
duly entered into the Congressional Record.) ((Rep. Louis T. McFadden
(R. Pa.) rose from office boy to become cashier and then President of
the First National Bank in Canton Ohio. For 12 years he served as
Chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency, making him one of the
foremost financial authorities in America. He fought continuously for
fiscal integrity and a return to constitutional government.)
“We
have, in this country, one of the most corrupt institutions the world
has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board. This evil
institution has impoverished the people of the United States and has
practically bankrupted our government. It has done this through the
corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it.” – Congressman Louis T. McFadden in 1932
“The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt, in a letter written to Colonel House, l933 (Source: Letter to
Col. Edward Mandell House (21 November 1933); as quoted in
F.D.R.: His Personal Letters, 1928-1945, edited by
Elliott Roosevelt (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1950), pg. 373.)
Irving Fisher
“Thus,
our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan
transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply
money they do not possess.” – 100% Money, Irving Fisher, 1935, American economist
G. Edward Griffin
“Throughout
the first half of the nineteenth century, the (Rothschild) brothers
conducted important transactions on behalf of the governments of
England, France, Prussia, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Naples, Portugal,
Brazil, various German states and smaller countries. They were the
personal bankers of many of the crowned heads of Europe. They made large
investments, through agents, in markets as distant as the United
States, India, Cuba and Australia.” – G. Edward Griffin, American political commentator, writer and documentary filmmaker.
By
remaining behind the scenes, they (the Rothschilds) were able to avoid
the brunt of public anger which was directed, instead, at the political
figures which they largely controlled. This is a technique which has
been practiced by financial manipulators ever since, and it is fully
utilized by those who operate the Federal Reserve System today.” – G. Edward Griffin, (born November 1931), American political commentator, writer and documentary filmmaker.
“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 [the banking problem]
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 are
remedied very soon.” – Robert H. Hemphill, circa 1939, Credit Manager, Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta
“Money
is the most important subject intellectual persons can investigate and
reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may
collapse unless it is widely understood and its defects remedied very
soon.” – Robert H. Hemphill, circa 1939, former credit manager, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Sir Josiah Stamp
“Bankers
own the earth; take it away from them but leave them with the power to
create credit; and, with a flick of a pen, they will create enough money
to buy it back again… If you want to be slaves of bankers and pay the
cost of your own slavery, then let the bankers control money and control
credit.”- Sir Josiah Stamp, Director, Bank of England, 1940
“You have to choose [as a voter] between trusting to the natural
stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and
intelligence of the members of the Government. And, with due respect for
these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the Capitalist system lasts,
to vote for gold.” – George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950
Wright Patman
“In
the United States today, we have two governments. We have the duly
constituted government and then we have and independent, uncontrolled
and uncoordinated government in the Federal Reserve System operating the
money powers which are reserved for Congress by the Constitution.” – Rep. Wright Patman, 1893-1976 (Congressman
Wright Patman was Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on
Banking and Currency for 40 years. For 20 of those years, he introduced
legislation to repeal the Federal Reserve Banking Act of 1913. )
“I
am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because
of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working
from within.”- General Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964
“We shall have world government, whether or not we like it. The
question is only whether world government will be achieved by consent or
by conquest.” —
James Warburg, son of CFR [Council on Foreign Relations] founder Paul Warburg,
testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on February 17, 1950:
“Today the path to total dictatorship in the U.S.
can be laid by strictly legal means… We have a well-organized
political-action group in this country, determined to destroy our
Constitution and establish a one-party state… It operates secretly,
silently, continuously to transform our Government… This ruthless
power-seeking elite is a disease of our century… This group…is
answerable neither to the President, the Congress, nor the courts. It is
practically irremovable.” –
Senator William Jenner,
1954 speech
“The
banks do create money. They have been doing it for a long time, but
they didn’t quite realize it, and they did not admit it. Very few did.
You will find it in all sorts of documents, financial textbooks, etc.
But in the intervening years, and we must all be perfectly frank about
these things, there has been a development of thought, until today I
doubt very much whether you would get many prominent bankers to attempt
to deny that banks create credit.”- H. W. White, 1955, Chairman of the Associated Banks of New Zealand, to the New Zealand Monetary Commission.
“The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a
conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind
simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been
introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human
creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all
that is good and decent.” —
J. Edgar Hoover,
The Elks Magazine, 1956
“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.”- American Mercury, H.L. Birum, Sr., August 1957
“The
invisible Money Power is working to control and enslave mankind. It
financed Communism, Fascism, Marxism, Zionism, Socialism. All of these
are directed to making the United States a member of a World
Government.”- American Mercury Magazine, December 1957
Barry Goldwater
“Most
Americans have no real understanding of the operations of the
international moneylenders… the accounts of the Federal Reserve have
never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and …
manipulates the credit of the United States”- Sen. Barry Goldwater, circa 1964
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing
that ever has.” – Margaret Mead, 1964.
Carroll Quigley
“The
powers of financial capitalism had (a) 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 meetings and conferences. The apex of
the systems was to be 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. Each central
bank…sought to dominate its government by its ability to control
Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level
of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative
politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world.”- Tragedy and Hope: A History of The World in Our Time, Professor Carroll Quigley of Georgetown University, 1966 (highly esteemed by his former student, William Jefferson Blythe Clinton)
Alan Greenspan
“[The]
abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare
statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion
of credit…. In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to
protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe
store of value. If there were, the government would have to make its
holdings illegal, as was done in the case of gold…. The financial policy
of the welfare state requires that there be no way for the owners of
wealth to protect themselves…. [This] is the shabby secret of the
welfare statist’s tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a
scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way
of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.”
– Alan Greenspan, in an article he wrote in 1966, before he became head of the Fed
Bill Moyers
“David
Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling
class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy
and manage the flow of its capital. Rockefeller was born to it, and he
has made the most of it. But what some critics see as a vast
international conspiracy, he considers a circumstance of life and just
another day’s work… In the world of David Rockefeller it’s hard to tell
where business ends and politics begins” – Bill Moyers, White House Press Secretary, July 8, 1965 – January 1967
“How
pale is the art of sorcerers, witches, and conjurors when compared with
that of the government’s Treasury Department!” . . . “The governments
alone are responsible for the spread of the superstitious awe with which
the common man looks upon every bit of paper upon which the treasury or
agencies which it controls have printed the magical words legal
tender.” – Ludwig von Mises, 1881-1973 Austrian economist, philosopher, and a major influence on the modern libertarian movement.
Curtis Dall
“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.” - “My Exploited Father-in-Law,” Curtis Dall, 1970, son-in-law to FDR
“Banks lend by creating credit. They create the means of payment out of nothing.”
– Ralph M. Hawtrey, 1879-1975, former Secretary of Treasury, England.
“Every circulating FRN (Federal Reserve Note) represents a one dollar debt to the Federal Reserve System.” – Money Facts, circa 1970, House Banking and Currency Committee
“When
you or I write a check there must be sufficient funds in our account to
cover the check, but when the Federal Reserve writes a check there is
no bank deposit on which that check is drawn. When the Federal Reserve
writes a check, it is creating money.” – “Putting It Simply”, circa 1970, Federal Reserve Bank, Boston
John K. Galbraith
“The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.”
- “Money: Whence it came, where it went”, John K. Galbraith, 1975
“Neither
paper currency nor deposits have value as commodities, intrinsically; a
‘dollar’ bill is just a piece of paper. Deposits are merely book
entries.” – Modern Money Mechanics Workbook, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 1975
“The Rockefellers and their allies have, for at
least fifty years, been carefully following a plan to use their economic
power to gain political control of first America, and then the rest of
the world. 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, November 1975,
from the introduction to a book titled The Rockefeller File.
Larry P. McDonald
“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 P. McDonald, 1976, killed in the Korean Airlines 747 that was shot down by the Soviets
John Danforth
“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 unforgivable 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, circa 1980
“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.” –
Daniel K. Inouye, US Senator from Hawaii,
testimony at the Iran Contra Hearings, 1986
“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, circa 1990, one of America’s most famous economists
Eustace Mullins
“American
history in the twentieth century has recorded the amazing achievements
of the Federal Reserve bankers. First, the outbreak of World War I,
which was made possible by the funds available from the new central bank
of the United States. Second, the Agricultural Depression of 1920.
Third, the Black Friday Crash on Wall Street of October, 1929 and the
ensuing Great Depression. Fourth, World War II. Fifth, the conversion of
the assets of the United States and its citizens from real property to
paper assets from 1945 to the present, transforming a victorious America
and foremost world power in 1945 to the world’s largest debtor nation
in 1990. Today, this nation lies in economic ruins, devastated and
destitute, in much the same dire straits in which Germany and Japan
found themselves in 1945. Will Americans act to rebuild our nation, as
Germany and Japan have done when they faced the identical conditions
which we now face–or will we continue to be enslaved by the Babylonian
debt money system which was set up by the Federal Reserve Act in 1913 to
complete our total destruction? This is the only question which we have
to answer, and we do not have much time left to answer it.” – Secrets of the Federal Reserve, Eustace Mullins, 1991
“The
Federal Reserve System is not Federal; it has no reserves; and it is
not a system at all, but rather, a criminal syndicate.” – Eustace Mullins, author of Secrets of the Federal Reserve, 1991
“In a small Swiss city sits an international organization so obscure
and secretive….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, New York Times, August 5, 1995
Henry Kissinger
“Who controls the money, controls the world.” – Henry Kissinger, circa 1995, Council on Foreign Relations
“Lord
Rothschild had access to all manner of leaders and experts. He was
responsible only to the Prime Minister and answerable to neither the
electorate nor the civil service chiefs.”- Derek Wilson, circa 1995, leading biographer and author
Bob Chapman
“The
dollar has clearly been abandoned and foreigners are starting to bail
from dollar-denominated assets in droves. This is where bailouts, and
the hyperinflationary destruction of the dollar that comes with them,
are leading us, along with miniscule bond rates caused by continual
flights to “security” as everyone flees in terror due to rapidly
deteriorating market conditions caused by subprime fallout,
over-leveraged speculation, fraudulent lending and borrowing, lack of
oversight, transparency and confidence, frozen credit markets, an
out-of-control money supply, profligate borrowing and spending, as well
as an economy destroyed in less than two decades by globalization, free
trade, off-shoring, outsourcing, unrestrained illegal immigration,
insane wars for profit and the rampant inflation and unemployment that
come from a completely, totally and malevolently mismanaged economy
thanks to the reprobates and sociopaths that run the Fed and our
government.” Bob Chapman, International Forecaster, 2008
Niall Ferguson
“From
the earliest days, the Rothschilds appreciated the importance of
proximity to politicians, the men who determined not only the extent of
budget deficits but also the domestic and foreign policies…” - The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, Niall Ferguson, 2008, Professor of History at Harvard University and William Ziegler Professor at Harvard Business School.
“Wake up you idiots! Whatever made you think paper was so valuable?” – Galapagos, Kurt Vonnegut, 2009
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