Quotable Quotes -
We've been warned before
"It is not my
intention to doubt that the doctrine of the Illuminati and the
principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On the
contrary, no one is more satisfied of this fact than I am.. The idea
that I meant to convey, was, that I did not believe that the Lodges
of Free Masons in this Country had, as Societies, endeavoured to
propagate the diabolical tenets of the first, or pernicious
principles of the latter (if they are susceptible of separation).
That Individuals of them may have done it, or that the founder, or
instrument employed to found, the Democratic Societies in the United
States, may have had these objects; and actually had a separation of
the People from their Government in view, is too evident to be
questioned."
-- George Washington
- 1785, in a letter written to the Reverend G. W. Snyder
"For more than
a century, ideological extremists at either end of the political
spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents to attack the
Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield
over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe
we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of
the United States, characterizing my family and me as
'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world
to build a more integrated global political and economic structure -
one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I
am proud of it."
--
David Rockefeller, Memoirs 2002
"We have come to
be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and
dominated governments in the civilized world. We are 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 dominate men. I have unwittingly betrayed my
country."
--
President Woodrow Wilson, 1916
"A clique of
U.S. industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist state to
supplant our democratic government. . . "
--
William E. Dodd, U.S. Ambassador to Germany 1937
(as reported in George Seldes.
Facts and Fascism, p. 122)
"There ought to
be limits to freedom."
-- George W. Bush - May 21, 1999, (reacting to some criticism of
him)
"There does
exist and has existed for a generation, an international
Anglophile network which operates, to some extent, in the way
the radical Right believes the Communists act. In fact, this
network, which we may identify as the Round Table groups, has no
aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other
groups, and frequently does so. I know of the operations of this
network because I have studied it for 20 years and was permitted
for two years, in the early 1960s, to examine its papers and
secret record. In addition to these pragmatic goals, 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 Basle,
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, Georgetown University history professor
(deceased)
(in Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time, 1966)
"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. McDonald died
when
Korean Airlines flight 007 was shot down in 1983.
"There
exists in our world today a powerful and dangerous secret cult.
This cult is patronized and protected by the highest level
government officials in the world. Its membership is composed of
those in the power centers of government, industry, commerce,
finance, and labor. It manipulates individuals in areas of
important public influence - including the academic world and
the mass media. The Secret Cult is a global fraternity of a
political aristocracy whose purpose is to further the political
policies of persons or agencies unknown. It acts covertly and
illegally."
--
Victor Marchetti, The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence
"And in the
general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had
been long abandoned - imprisonment without trial, the use of war
prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract
confessions ... and the deportation of whole populations - not only
became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people
who considered themselves enlightened and progressive."
--
George Orwell, 1984
"The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and
we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret
societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided
long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment
of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers, which are cited to
justify it."
-- President John F. Kennedy
Address to newspaper publishers
April 27, 1961
"Democracy is
not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability,
exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and
feedback from the citizenry. It is about responsible government. We
have to get our fellow Americans to trust their leaders less and
themselves more, trust their own questions and suspicions, and their
own desire to know what is going on."
-- Michael Parenti - Author, Historian
"Many Americans
recognize that politicians lie, that they are capable of saying one
thing then doing another, that they loudly proclaim a dedication to
the people while quietly serving powerful interests. But when it
comes to U.S. foreign policy, many of us retreat from that judgment.
Suddenly we find it hard to believe that U.S. leaders would lie to
us about their intentions in the world, and that they pursue
neoimperialist policies having little to do with democracy."
--
Michael Parenti
- Author, Historian
"I think there are 25,000 individuals that have used offices of
powers, and they are in our Universities and they are in our
Congresses, and they believe in One World Government. And if you
believe in One World Government, then you are talking about
undermining National Sovereignty and you are talking about setting
up something that you could well call a Dictatorship - and those
plans are there!"
-- Congressman Ron Paul at an event near Austin, Texas on August 30th,
2003
"We shall have world government whether or not you like it... by
conquest or consent."
-- James Warburg - Rothschild Banking Agent 1950
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any
significance in the major media."
-- William Colby (Former CIA Director)
"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 had better not
speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it."
-- Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States
- New York City, September 4, 1912
“The interests behind the Bush administration, such as the CFR,
the Trilateral Commission- founded by Brzezinski for David
Rockefeller- and the Bilderberg Group have prepared for and are now
moving to implement open world dictatorship within the next five
years.”
-- Dr. Johannes Koeppl
Former official of the German Ministry for Defence and advisor to
NATO
“We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is
the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World
Order.”
-- David Rockefeller
"Today, America would be outraged if UN troops entered Los
Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow, they will be grateful! This
would especially be true if they were told that there were an
outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated that
threatened our very existence.
It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them
from this evil.
The one thing man fears is the unknown. When presented with this
scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the
guarantee of their well-being granted to them by a World
Government."
-- Henry Kissinger - Bilderburg Conference, Evians, France 1991
"The Order's working and involvement in America is immense. The real
rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind
the scenes."
--
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965) - 1952
"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."
-- Douglas MacArthur
"I believe that if the people of this nation fully understood what
Congress has done to them of the past 49 years, they would move on
Washington, they would not wait for an election… It adds up to a
preconceived plan to destroy the economic and social independence of
the United States.”
-- Senator George Malone of Nevada - 1957, while speaking of the
Federal Reserve
"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's
consent . . . . These United States of America can never be
destroyed from forces outside its borders. If America falls, it will
fall from within. Brought down by apathy. When good people do
nothing, Anarchy reigns."
-- Abraham Lincoln in a 1854 letter to Congress
"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 - in a letter written Nov. 21, 1933 to Colonel
E. Mandell House
"If the American
people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their
currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, 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 1816
"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 (D. HI) at the Iran Contra Hearings
"A clique of U.S. industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist
state to supplant our democratic government and is working closely
with the fascist regime in Germany and Italy. I have had plenty of
opportunity in my post in Berlin to witness how close some of our
American ruling families are to the Nazi regime. They extended aid
to help Fascism occupy the seat of power, and they are helping to
keep it there."
-- William E. Dodd U.S. Ambassador to Germany 1937
"The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the
hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An
invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy."
-- Woodrow Wilson
"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against
principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness
of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. "
-- Ephesians 6:12
“The real
menace to our Republic is the invisible government which is like a
giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over the 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 the International bankers. The little
coterie of powerful international bankers virtually runs the United
States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically
control both political parties. 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
public protection”
--
John Hylan -1922 - Mayor of
New York (1918-1925)
"The world is governed by very different personages from what is
imagined by those who are not behind the scenes."
-- Benjamin Disraeli, 1st British Prime Minister
"A nation as
such does not give aid to another nation. More precisely, the common
citizens of our country, through their taxes, give to the privileged
elites of another country. As someone once said: foreign aid is when
the poor people of a rich country give money to the rich people of a
poor country."
-- Michael Parenti - Author, Historian
"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 money vultures who control it."
-- Rep. Louis T. McFadden (R-PA) 1932
"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
"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."
-- Pres. Woodrow Wilson
- These
statements were made after his realization that the signing of the
Federal Reserve Act of 1913 was the worst decision he ever made
"The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is the American Branch of
a society which originated in England ... (and) ... believes
national boundaries should be obliterated and one-world rule established."
-- Carroll Quigley, Professor
of History Georgetown University, in his book "Tragedy and Hope".
"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... they will rule the future."
-- Barry Goldwater, U.S Senator 1964
"The Trilateral Commission doesn't run the world,
the Council on
Foreign Relations does that!"
-- Winston Lord, Assistant Secretary of State, the U. S. State
Department
"The
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is dedicated to one-world government, financed by a
number of the largest tax exempt foundation (i.e. Rockefeller), and
wielding such power and influence over our lives in the areas of
finance, business, labor, military, education, and mass
communication media, that it should be familiar to every American
concerned with good government and with preserving and defending the
US Constitution and our free-enterprise system. Yet, the nation's
right-to-know machinery, the news media; usually so aggressive in
exposures to inform our people, remain silent when it comes to the
CFR, its members and their activities. The CFR 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 finances and uses individuals and groups to bring
pressure from below, to justify the high level decisions for
converting the US from a sovereign Republic into a servile member of
a one-world dictatorship."
-- Congressman John R. Rarick
"I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is
controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is
concentrated in the hands of a few men."
-- Woodrow Wilson
"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."
-- Benjamin Disraeli, 1st
British Prime Minister
"The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation
of inextinguishable debts."
--
Henry Ford - Industry Giant
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"We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time
Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended
our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost
forty years...
"It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the
world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity
during those years. But the work is now much more sophisticated and
prepared to march towards a world government."
"The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world
bankers is surely preferable to the national auro determination
practiced in past centuries."
-- David Rockefeller, Trilateral Commission Founder 1991
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"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 money vultures who control
it."
-- Rep. Louis T. McFadden (R-PA) 1932
“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 by morning.”
-- President Andrew Jackson - 1834 speaking to bankers
"Right after the Civil War there was considerable talk about
reviving Lincoln's brief experimentation with the Constitutional
monetary system. Had not the European money-trust intervened, it
would have no doubt become an established institutional."
-- W. Cleon Skousen
“Secrecy is the
freedom zealots dream of: no watchman to check the door, no
accountant to check the books, no judge to check the lay. The Secret
Government has no constitution. The rules it follows are the rules
it makes up.”
-- Bill Moyers - The Secret Government The
Constitution in Crisis (1990)
“Fifty men have run America, and that’s a high figure”
-- Joseph P. Kennedy - U.S Ambassador & Father of JFK & RFK 1936
"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 the other people's money."
--
Rep. Charles A. Lindberg
(R-MN)
“These men are not incompetent or stupid. They are crafty and
brilliant… If they were merely stupid, they would occasionally make
a mistake in our favour.”
-- James Forrestal - U.S. Secretary of Defence
“Those not favourable to the money trust could be squeezed out of
business and the people frightened into demanding changes in the
banking and currency laws which the Money Trust would frame”
-- In response to the scam that was the depression of 1907 and how it
fooled everyone into embracing the Federal Reserve as a good idea.
--
Rep. Charles A. Lindberg
(R-MN)
"I went to America in the winter of 1872-73, authorized 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."
-- Ernest Seyd (Representative of International Bankers)
"The division of the United States into federations of equal
force was decided long before the Civil War by the high financial
powers of Europe. These bankers were afraid that the United States,
if they remained as one block, and as one nation, would attain
economic and financial independence, which would upset their
financial domination over the world"
-- Otto von Bismark (soon to be chancellor of Germany, watching the
events of the Civil War)
"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."
-- Abraham Lincoln
"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"
-- Salmon P. Chase (Lincoln's former secretary of Treasury just before
Lincoln's death regretting past decisions)
"If this mischievous financial policy, which has its origin in
North America, shall become endurated down to a fixture, then that
Government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off
debts and be without debt. It will have all the money necessity to
carry on its commerce. It will become prosperous without precedent
in the history of the world. The brains, and wealth of all countries
will go to North America. That country must be destroyed or it will
destroy every monarchy on the globe."
-- Times of London
“In numerous years following the war, the Federal Government ran
a heavy surplus. It could not [however] pay off its debt, retire its
securities, because to do so meant there would be no bonds to back
the national bank notes. To pay off the debt was to destroy the
money supply."
-- John Kenneth Galbraith (in response to clearing the debt after the
silver war. Greenbacks were still in circulation, but were no longer
being printed. It was BANK NOTES that were again being produced.
These were re-introduced due to the National Banking Act)
"From the days of Sparticus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski,
Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy 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."
-- Sir Winston Churchill - Illustrated Sunday Herald, February 8,
1920
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“Actually it was the calculated shearing of the public by the
World- Money powers triggered by the planned sudden shortage of call
money in the New York Money Market”
(That triggered the collapse of the stock market in ’29)
"For a long time I felt that FDR had developed many thoughts and
ideas that were his own to benefit this country, the United States.
But he didn't... Most of his thoughts were carefully manufactured
for him in advance by the Council on Foreign Relations- One World
Money Group."
"The United Nations is but a long range, international banking
apparatus clearly set up for financial and economic profit by a
small group of powerful One-World revolutionaries, hungry for profit
and power."
"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, FDR's Son-in-law
(These are quotes from his book- FDR: My Exploited Father-in-law)
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"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 everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and
can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans."
-- Benjamin Disraeli, 1st British Prime Minister
1876
“It is not our own citizens only who are to receive the bounty of
our government. More than 8 millions of the stock of this bank are
held by foreigners… is there no danger to our liberty and
independence in a bank that in its nature has so little to bind it
to our country? Controlling our currency, receiving our public
moneys, and holding thousands of our citizens in dependence… would
be more formidable and dangerous than a military power of the enemy."
--
Andrew Jackson
- Bank Veto Message, July 10, 1832
"If [government] would confine itself to equal protection, and,
as Heaven does its rains, shower its favour alike on high and the
low, the rich and poor, it would be an unqualified blessing. In the
act before me there seems to be a wide and unnecessary departure
from these just principles.”
-- Andrew Jackson (In response to
the power of the 2nd National Bank and the upcoming renewal of its
charter).
"The case for government by elites is irrefutable."
-- William Fulbright, U.S. Senator 1963
"In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all
states will recognize a single, global authority. National
sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all."
-- Strobe Talbott, Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State 1992
"We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for
it in blood as well as words and money."
-- Arthur Schlesinger, U.S. Historian 1995
"To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the
minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions,
national patriotism and religious dogmas."
-- G. Brock Chisholm, co-founder of the World Federation for Mental
Health, former director of UN World Health Organization
"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."
-- Letter from Governor Morris to James Maddison (1787)
"I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our
Constitution-- taking from the federal government their power of
borrowing."
-- Thomas Jefferson (as he watched the 1st Bank of the United States
in action on U.S. economy)
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"It is not our own citizens only who are to receive the bounty of
our Government. More than eight millions of the stock of this bank
are held by foreigners... Is there no danger to our liberty and
independence in a bank that in its nature has so little to bind it
to our country?
"Controlling our currency, receiving our public moneys, and holding
thousands of our citizens in dependence... would be more formidable
and dangerous than a military power of the enemy."
"If [government] would confine itself to equal protection, and as
Heaven does its rains, shower its favour alike on the high and the
low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing. In
the act before me there seems to be a wide and unnecessary departure
from these just principles"
-- Andrew Jackson (giving his reason for his veto
rejecting the renewal of the charter of the 2nd Bank of the United
States)
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Relating to the Civil War and Lincoln’s Death
"I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the
institution of slavery in the states where it now exists. I believe
I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do
so."
-- Abraham Lincoln
"My paramount objective is to save the Union, and is not either
to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without
freeing any slave, I would do it."
-- Abraham Lincoln (Proof that slavery was not the main cause of the
Civil War)
"Why, Lincoln, that is easy; just get Congress to pass a bill
authorizing the printing of full legal tender treasury notes... and
pay your soldiers with them and go ahead and win your war with them
also."
-- Col. Dick Taylor (in response to Lincoln's dilemma of paying for
the War, and having the banks wanting him to fail, charging him
24-36% interest on loans)
(This is therefore what Lincoln did in 1862-63, printing 64 million
dollars worth of greenbacks during the war)
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"The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the
currency and credit 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. Money will cease to be master and become
the servant of humanity."
-- More Lincoln quotes
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The Contraction Act was passed right after Lincoln's death (April
12, 1866), authorizing the Sec. of the Treasury to begin to retire
some of the greenbacks in circulation and thereby contract the money
supply
A series of depressions thereby followed which prompted Congress to
pass the Federal Reserve Act in 1913. This gave the bankers an
central bank exclusively controlled by them and an American Currency
backed by gold (this came with the passing of The Gold Standard just
before Lincoln died)
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"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 tortuous 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 should become their inheritance."
-- Otto von Bismark
"I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people... To disarm
the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave
them..."
-- George Mason
"Childbearing [should be] a punishable crime against society,
unless the parents hold a government license ... All potential
parents [should be] required to use contraceptive chemicals, the
government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing."
-- David Brower - (first Executive Director of the Sierra Club;
founder of Friends of the Earth; and founder of the Earth Island
Institute - quoted by Dixie Lee Ray, Trashing the Planet, p.166)
"Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government
and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records
high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security,
to law and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific
advancement and the like."
-- William O. Douglas 1898-1980), U. S. Supreme Court Justice
"And
what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned
from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance?
Let them take arms....The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to
time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson
- Third President of the United States
and author of the Declaration of Independence
"The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear
arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in
government."
--Thomas
Jefferson
"The very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference
- they deserve a place of honor with all that is good."
-- George
Washington
"That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize
Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of
conscience; or to prevent the people of The United States who are
peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."
--
Samuel Adams
"The supposed quietude of a good mans allures the ruffian; while on the
other hand, arms like laws discourage and keep the invader and the
plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property.
The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of
arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not
lay them aside...Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world
deprived of the use of them."
-- Thomas
Paine
"A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free
State, the right of the People to keep and bear Arms, shall not be
infringed."
-- Amendment II, Constitution of the United States
"The US government
has given over $200 billion dollars in military aid to some eighty
nations since World War II. US weapons sales abroad have grown to
about $10 billion a year and compose about 70 percent of all arms
sold on the international marketplace. Two million foreign troops
and hundreds of thousands of foreign police and paramilitary have
been trained, equipped, and financed by the United States. Their
purpose has not been to defend their countries from outside invasion
but to protect foreign investors and the ruling elites of the
recipient nations from their own potentially rebellious
populations."
-- Michael Parenti - Author, Historian
"The supposed quietude of a good mans allures the ruffian; while on the
other hand, arms like laws discourage and keep the invader and the
plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property.
The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of
arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not
lay them aside...Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world
deprived of the use of them."
-- Thomas
Paine
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. "
-- Thomas
Jefferson
"A patriot
must always be ready to defend his country against his government."
-- Edward Abbey - Author
"If we
understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, is it not
possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will
without their knowing about it?"
-- Edward Bernays - "Propaganda" Pg.71 in 1928
(1891-1995 Nephew of Sigmund Freud)
"A
presidential candidate may be "drafted" in response to 'around
popular demand,' but it is well known that his name may be decided
upon by half a dozen men sitting L.. around a table in a hotel
room."
-- Edward Bernays - "Propaganda" Pg.71 in 1928 "
"Ewen
interviewed Bernays near the end of his life and was struck by his
'unabashedly hierarchical view of society. Repeatedly, he maintained
that, while most people respond to their world instinctively,
without thought, there exist an 'intelligent few' who have been
charged with the responsibility of contemplating and influencing the
tide of history.... He expressed little respect for the average
person's ability to think out, understand, or act upon the world in
which they live.... Throughout our conversation, Bernays conveyed
his hallucination of democracy: a highly educated class of
opinion-molding tacticians are continuously at work, analyzing the
social terrain and adjusting the mental scenery from which the
public mind, with its limited intellect, derives its opinions.'"
-- Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber - "Trust Us We're Experts
Pg.42"
"The American propaganda system is not centrally programmed as it is
in a totalitarian state. Instead it permeates the culture, the
media, and the institutions. Individuals who point out unpleasant
realities of current or past American behavior are often subjected
to social pressures and treated as pariahs. They are disturbers of
the dream."
-- William H. Boyer
“NEWSWEEK has
learned that while U.S. intelligence received no specific warning, the
state of alert had been high during the past two weeks, and a
particularly urgent warning may have been received the night before the
attacks, causing some top Pentagon brass to cancel a trip. Why that same
information was not available to the 266 people who died aboard the four
hijacked commercial aircraft may become a hot topic on the Hill.”
-- Michael Hirsh, Newsweek, September 13, 2001 issue 'We've Hit the
Targets'
"Just look
at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors
destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy
knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy
information and religions destroy spirituality."
-- Dr. Michael Ellner, an internationally prominent hypnosis
educator and practitioner.
"Peace and
the survival of life on Earth as we know it are threatened by human
activities which lack a commitment to humanitarian values."
--The Dalai Lama
"In a time
of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
-- George Orwell
“Never mind
how we got to be how we are. Let’s work out a way to preserve what’s
left of this planet.”
-- Jane Goodall.
"The only
unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable."
-- John F. Kennedy.
"Lennon
represented life, and Mr. Nixon and Mr. Bush represent death."
-- Gore Vidal.
"I have this incredible dream that one day, one minute, the whole
world, at the same time, will decide it's time for peace and love.
So I just do my part. And I think that's all you can do. I'm not
telling anyone else what to do. I do this and that's the end of my
story."
-- Ringo Starr
"The
enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what
Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great
propaganda accomplishments of the dominate political mythology."
-- Michael Parenti
- Author, Historian
"We were
not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our
lives (or a month, or a year) when certain facts appeared before us,
startled us, and then caused us to question beliefs that were
strongly fixed in our consciousness-embedded there by years of
family prejudices, orthodox schooling, imbibing of newspapers,
radio, and television."
-- Howard Zinn
"Intolerance of dissent is a well-noted feature of the American
national character."
--
Senator J. William Fulbright
"From 1945
to 2003, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40
foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist
movements fighting against intolerable regimes. In the process, the
US bombed some 25 countries, caused the end of life for several
million people, and condemned many millions more to a life of agony
and despair."
-- William Blum
"For the
last fifty years we've been supporting right-wing governments, and
that is a puzzlement to me...I don't understand what there is in the
American character... that almost automatically, even when we have a
liberal President, we support fascist dictatorships or are tolerant
towards them."
-- William Shirer
"Why of
course the people don't want war... That is understood. But after
all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and
it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is
a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a
communist dictatorship ...Voice or no voice, the people can always
be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have
to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the
pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to
danger."
-- Hermann Goering
"[I] never
saw a foreign intervention that the [New York] Times did not
support, never saw a fare increase or a rent increase or a utility
rate increase that it did not endorse, never saw it take the side of
labor in a strike or lockout, or advocate a raise for underpaid
workers. And don't let me get started on universal health care and
Social Security. So why do people think the Times is liberal?"
-- Veteran New York Times reporter John Hess
"The media
serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely
interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a manner
supportive of established privilege and limiting debate and
discussion accordingly."
-- Noam Chomsky
"The
twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of
great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of
corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means
of protecting corporate power against democracy."
-- Alex Carey
"Paramount
among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent
any part of the government from deceiving the people..."
-- Hugo Black, Supreme Court Justice
"If fascism
ever came to the United States, it would be wrapped in an American
flag."
-- Huey Long
"When the
full and true story of Jean-Bertrand Aristide is finally told, it
will portray a noble and humble man who gave of himself honorably to
serve the interests of all the people of Haiti. His only failure was
his inability to overcome the brutal and corrupt power of the U.S.
and its determination to see him fail. "
-- Stephen Lendman
"This [the
U.S. Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course of
years and then end in despotism... when the people shall become so
corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any
other."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"Americans
are too broadly under informed to digest nuggets of information that
seem to contradict what they know of the world ... Instead, news
channels prefer to feed Americans a constant stream of simplified
information, all of which fits what they already know. That way they
don't have to devote more air time or newsprint space to
explanations or further investigations... Politicians and the media
have conspired to infantilize, to dumb down, the American public. At
heart, politicians don't believe that Americans can handle complex
truths, and the news media, especially television news, basically
agrees."
-- Tom Fenton, former CBS foreign correspondent
"[American
leaders] are perhaps not so much immoral as they are amoral. It's
not that they take pleasure in causing so much death and suffering.
It's that they just don't care ... the same that could be said about
a sociopath. As long as the death and suffering advance the agenda
of the empire, as long as the right people and the right
corporations gain wealth and power and privilege and prestige, as
long as the death and suffering aren't happening to them or people
close to them ... then they just don't care about it happening to
other people, including the American soldiers whom they throw into
wars and who come home - the ones who make it back alive - with
Agent Orange or Gulf War Syndrome eating away at their bodies.
American leaders would not be in the positions they hold if they
were bothered by such things."
-- William Blum
"Those
who formally rule take their signals and commands not from the
electorate as a body, but from a small group of men (plus a few
women). . . . It exists even though that existence is stoutly
denied. It is one of the secrets of the American social order.
. . . A second secret is the fact that the existence of the
Establishment -- the ruling class -- is not supposed to be
discussed.''
--
Arthur S. Miller, George Washington University law professor
- asserted this after years of studying the present cabal.
"Our
government will soon become what it is already a long way toward
becoming, an elective dictatorship."
-- Senator J. William Fulbright
"Television
is altering the meaning of "being informed" by creating a species of
information that might properly be called disinformation...
Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading
information - misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial
information - information that creates the illusion of knowing
something, but which in fact leads one away from knowing."
-- Neil Postman
"Media
manipulation in the U.S. today is more efficient than it was in Nazi
Germany, because here we have the pretense that we are getting all
the information we want. That misconception prevents people from
even looking for the truth."
-- Mark Crispin Miller
"Expecting
FOX News to report real news is about as silly as waiting for George
Bush and Dick Cheney to tell the truth... Americans care, but it's
tough to care when you don't know what's going on. That ignorance is
what the warmakers count on and what the corporate media delivers."
-- Amy Goodman
"The fact
that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence that it is not
utterly absurd."
-- Bertrand Russell
"The point
of public relations slogans like "Support our troops" is that they
don't mean anything... That's the whole point of good propaganda.
You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and
everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it
doesn't mean anything. Its crucial value is that it diverts your
attention from a question that does mean something: Do you support
our policy? That's the one you're not allowed to talk about."
-- Noam Chomsky
"To
criticize one's country is to do it a service .... Criticism, in
short, is more than a right; it is an act of patriotism - a higher
form of patriotism, I believe, than the familiar rituals and
national adulation."
-- U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright
"I was
compelled to face the possibility that some human problems may be
rooted in some of the most utterly bizarre realities imaginable.
Because such realities are rarely acknowledged, let alone
understood, they are not dealt with. As a result, the problems those
realities generate are rarely resolved, and so the world stumbles
from one calamity to the next."
-- William
Bramley - The Gods of Eden 1989
"Real
patriots are those who care enough to educate themselves about our
country's history and its present plight. It is not "anti-American"
to criticize unjust social conditions at home or oppose global
policies pursued by our rulers. Rather it is our democratic right
and patriotic duty to do so."
-- Michael Parenti - Author,
Historian
"There ought to be limits to freedom."
-- George W. Bush - May 21, 1999, (reacting to some criticism of
him)
"For more than
a century, ideological extremists at either end of the political
spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents to attack the
Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield
over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe
we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of
the United States, characterizing my family and me as
'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world
to build a more integrated global political and economic structure -
one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I
am proud of it."
--
David Rockefeller, Memoirs 2002
