Pertinent Quotes

topic posted Wed, October 19, 2005 - 4:09 PM by  Abraxas
A thread for pertinent quotes from prominent personalities in finance, industry, and government.
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      Thu, October 20, 2005 - 6:15 AM
      "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, The New Freedom (1913)
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    "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
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    Wed, October 19, 2005 - 4:19 PM
    "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be."

    "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation then by deflation, the banks and the corporations will grow up around them, 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."

    "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies."

    "I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our constitution - taking from the federal government their power of borrowing."

    -Thomas Jefferson
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    Wed, October 19, 2005 - 4:23 PM
    "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer."

    "I can think of no faster way to unite the American people behind George W. Bush than a terrorist attack on an American target overseas. And I believe George W. Bush will quickly unite the American people through his foreign policy."

    "I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves."

    -Henry Kissinger
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    "The process of transformation, even if it brings
    revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one,
    absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event -- like
    a new Pearl Harbor"

    - Project for a New American Century
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    "There is a chance that the President of the United States, to use
    this disaster to carry out what his father, a phrase his father used
    I think only once, and hasn't been used since, and that is a New
    World Order."

    -- Former Congressman Gary Hart, speaking after Sept. 11, 2001 at a
    CFR meeting, co-chair of United States Commission on National
    Security, the Hart-Rudman Commission, which issued a three-phase
    report, "New World Coming", "A Road Map for National Security" for
    the creation of the National Homeland Security Agency.
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    Thu, October 20, 2005 - 5:57 AM
    "The world is governed by very different personages from what is
    imagined by those who are not behind the scenes." Benjamin Disraeli,
    first Prime Minister of England, in a novel he published in 1844
    called Coningsby, the New Generation

    "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. "

    British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, 1876
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    "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 Insitute -
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    "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. What the Trilateral
    Commission intends is to create a worldwide economic power superior
    to the political governments of the nationstates involved. As
    managers and creators of the system ,they will rule the future."

    U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater in his l964 book: With No Apologies.
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    Thu, October 20, 2005 - 6:00 AM
    "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 that was shot down by the Soviets
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      "We shall have world government whether or not you like it, by
      conquest or consent."

      Statement by Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) member James Warburg
      to The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on February 17th, l950




      "We are at present working discreetly with all our might to wrest
      this mysterious force called sovereignty out of the clutches of the
      local nation states of the world."

      Professor Arnold Toynbee, in a June l931 speech before the Institute
      for the Study of International Affairs in Copenhagen.
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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 auto-determination practiced in
    past centuries."

    David Rockefeller, founder of the Trilateral Commission, in an
    address to a meeting of The Trilateral Commission, in June, 1991
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    "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."

    A letter written by FDR to Colonel House, November 21st, l933



    Curtis Dall, FDR's son-in-law as quoted in his book, My Exploited
    Father-in-Law:

    "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, his political ammunition, as it
    were, were carefully manufactured for him in advanced by the Council
    on Foreign Relations-One World Money group. Brilliantly, with great
    gusto, like a fine piece of artillery, he exploded that
    prepared "ammunition" in the middle of an unsuspecting target, the
    American people, and thus paid off and returned his internationalist
    political support.

    "The UN 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 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."
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    "Every child in American who enters school with an allegiance toward
    our elected officials, toward our founding fathers, toward our
    institutions, toward the preservation of this form of government...
    all of this proves the children are sick, because the truly well
    individual is one who has rejected all of those things and is what I
    would call the true international child of the future".

    - Chester M. Pierce, Harvard University psychiatrist, at a 1973
    International Education Seminar, as quoted in "Educating For The New
    World Order" by B.K. Eakman
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    "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 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."

    -U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 21, 1864, letter to Col.
    William F. Elkins, in The Lincoln Encyclopedia, by Archer H. Shaw
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    Re: The Depopulation Agenda

    Thu, October 20, 2005 - 6:26 AM

    "The men of the New Republic will not be squeamish either in facing
    or inflicting death.... They will have ideals that will make
    killing worthwhile.... They will hold that a certain portion of the
    population exists only on sufferance out of pity and patience, and
    on the understanding that they do not propagate; and I do not forsee
    any reason to suppose that they will hesitate to kill when that
    sufferance is abused"

    -H. G. Wells, 1924, 'The Works of H. G. Wells', London: T. F. Union
    and Co., vol. 4, pp. 258-259


    "In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more people
    into the houses, and court the return of the plague."

    -English political economist Thomas Robert Malthus, 1798, 'An Essay
    on the Principle of Population'
    www.econlib.org/library/Ma...malPop.html




    "The total world population should be not more than 2 billion, rather
    than the current 5.6 billion."

    -Cornell University professor David Pimentel, speaking at the American
    Association for the Advancement of Science, 1994




    "A reasonable estimate for an industrialized world society at the
    present North American material standard of living would be 1
    billion. At the more frugal European standard, 2 to 3 billion would
    be possible."

    -UNEP Global Assessment Report, Phase One Draft, sec.9.
    According to the UN Population Census table, its 1 billion limit
    would take us back to the global population of the year 1804, and 2
    billion to 1927.




    "Cut the population by 90% and there aren't enough people left to do
    a great deal of ecological damage."

    -Dr. Sam Keen, philosopher, at the 'State of the World Forum',
    sponsored by the Gorbachev Foundation and attended by many world
    leaders, San Francisco, 1995, as quoted by William Jasper in 'Global
    Gorby', The New American, Oct. 30, 1995




    "We must cut out the cancer of population growth. Coercion?
    Perhaps, but coercion in a good cause .... We must be relentless in
    pushing for population control."

    -Paul R. Ehrlich, 1968, 'The Population Bomb', New York: Ballantine
    Books, p. 11




    "It's terrible to have to say this. World population must be
    stabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per day"

    -Jacques Cousteau, quoted by Bahgat Elnadi and Adel Rifaat
    in 'Interview With Jacques-Yves Cousteau', The UNESCO Courier, Nov.
    1991, p. 13




    "At present the population of the world is increasing at about
    58,000 per diem. War, so far, has had no very great effect on this
    increase, which continued throughout each of the world wars.... War
    has hitherto been disappointing in this respect ... but perhaps
    bacteriological war may prove effective. If a Black Death could
    spread throughout the world once in every generation, survivors
    could procreate freely without making the world too full. The state
    of the world might be unpleasant, but what of it"

    Bertrand Russell, 1953, 'The Impact of Science on Society', New York:
    Simon and Schuster, pp. 102-104




    "A total world population of 250-300 million people, a 95 percent
    decline from present levels would be ideal."

    -Ted Turner, quoted by Bruce Stutz in 'Ted Turner Turns It On',
    Audubon, November-December 1991




    "In the event I am reborn, I would like to return as a deadly virus,
    in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation"

    -Prince Philip, quoted in Deutsche Presse Agentur, August 1988




    On March 22, 1980, an anonymous Masonic Lodge in Georgia put up a
    large stone monument, the 'Georgia Guidestones', with their "New" Ten
    Commandments.

    Engraved on huge granite slabs in 12 different languages they are
    said to be dictated by anonymous 'guides'. Guideline Number One
    specifies that earth's population must be reduced to 1/2 billion in
    order to "balance with Nature", implying that at least 80% of
    humanity must be eliminated.
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    Thu, October 20, 2005 - 12:12 PM
    "My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them... Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave."

    -- Arnold Schwarzenegger at 44 to US News and World Report in 1990.

    "My friends don't want me to mention Kurt's name, because of all the recent Nazi stuff and the U.N. controversy, but I love him and Maria does too, and so thank you, Kurt."

    -- Arnold Schwarzenegger on his friend and fellow Austrian Kurt Waldheim, a Nazi war criminal

    "I was always dreaming about very powerful people, dictators and things like that. I was just always impressed by people who could be remembered for hundreds of years, or even, like Jesus, be for thousands of years remembered."

    -- Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1977 film Pumping Iron
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    Thu, October 20, 2005 - 12:13 PM
    "Look, if you think any American official is going to tell you the truth, then you're stupid. Did you hear that? -- stupid."

    -- Sec. of Defense for Public Affairs, Arthur Sylvester, 1966.
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    Thu, October 20, 2005 - 6:00 PM
    “The two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can ‘throw the rascals out’ at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shift in policy.”

    -Carroll Quigley

    “The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching (plan), 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.”

    -Carroll Quigley

    “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 identity as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any group, and frequently does so. I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for twenty years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960's, to examine its papers and secret records. I have no aversion to it or to most of its aims and have, for much of my life, been close to it and to many of its instruments. I have objected, both in the past and recently, to a few of its policies, but in general my chief difference of opinion is that it wishes to remain unknown, and I believe its role in history is significant enough to be known.”

    -Carroll Quigley (Clinton mentor, professor of history at the Foreign Service School of Georgetown University, formerly taught at Princeton and at Harvard, member of American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Anthropological and the American Economic Association, lecturer at Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Brookings Institution, US Naval Weapons Laboratory, Foreign Service Institute of the State Department, and the Naval College at Norfolk, VA)
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    Thu, October 27, 2005 - 4:28 PM
    “To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family tradition, national patriotism, and religious dogmas....We have swallowed all manner of poisonous certainties fed us by our parents, our Sunday and day school teachers, our politicians, our priests....The reinterpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent and rational thinking for faith in the certainties of old people, these are the belated objectives...for charting the changes in human behavior.”

    - Brock Chislholm, 1959 Humanist of the Year and former head of World Health Organization, in the February 1946 issue of Psychiatry

    "In the world as it is today, this institution can hardly be a universal Church. It is more likely to be something like a League of Nations. I will not prophesy. I will merely repeat that we are at present working, discreetly but with all our might, to wrest this mysterious political force called sovereignty out of the clutches of the local national states of our world. And all the time we are denying with our lips what we are doing with our hands, because to impugn the sovereignty of the local national states of the world is still a heresy for which a statesman or a publicist can be — perhaps not quite burnt at the stake, but certainly ostracized and discredited"

    - Arnold J. Toynbee, "The Trend of International Affairs Since the War," International Affairs, November 1931, p. 809

    "There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution."

    - Aldous Huxley's lecture to The California Medical School in San Francisco in 1961

    "We shall have a World government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World government will be achieved by conquest or consent."

    - James Paul Warburg, February 17, 1950, before the U.S. Senate
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    Thu, October 27, 2005 - 4:30 PM
    "Obviously our first step must be immediately to establish and advertise drastic policies designed to bring our own population size under control."

    "...The first task is population control at home. How do we go about it? Many of my colleagues feel that some sort of compulsory birth regulation would be necessary to achieve such control. One plan often mentioned involves the addition of temporary sterilants to water supplies or staple food. Doses of the antidote would be carefully rationed by the government to produce the desired population size."

    - Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb, p.130-131
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      Fri, October 28, 2005 - 8:37 AM
      Hermann Goering Nazi General.

      "Why, of course, the people don't want war," Goering shrugged. "Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. 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."

      "There is one difference," I pointed out. "In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars."

      "Oh, that is all well and good, but, 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 tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
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    Tue, November 15, 2005 - 2:40 PM
    In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

    ~Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935
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    Thu, November 17, 2005 - 3:44 PM
    "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."

    - Brock Adams, Director UN Health Organization

    "We are not going to achieve a New World Order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money."

    - Arthur Schlesinger Jr., 'The CFR Journal Foreign Affairs', August 1975.

    "A world government can intervene militarily in the internal affairs of any nation when it disapproves of their activities."

    - Kofi Annan, U.N. Secretary General

    "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 that was shot down by the Soviets

    "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 Talbot, President Clinton's Deputy Secretary of State, as quoted in Time, July 20th, l992.
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    Thu, November 17, 2005 - 3:45 PM
    "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."

    - U.S. Congressman Oscar Callaway, 1917
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    Thu, November 17, 2005 - 3:58 PM
    "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."

    - New York City Mayor John F. Hylan, 1922

    "We are at present working discreetly with all our might to wrest this mysterious force called sovereignty out of the clutches of the local nation states of the world."

    - Professor Arnold Toynbee, in a June 1931 speech before the Institute for the Study of International Affairs in Copenhagen.
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    Fri, November 18, 2005 - 8:02 PM
    "The most remarkable development in the management of America's relations with other countries during the quarter-century since the end of World War II has been the assumption of more and more control over military, financial and diplomatic operations at home and abroad by men whose activities are secret, whose budget is secret, whose very identities as often as not are secret -- in short, by a Secret Team whose actions only those implicated in them are in a position to monitor and to understand."

    "The Secret Team does not like criticism, investigation, or history and is always prone to see the world as divided into but two camps -- "Them" and "Us". Sometimes the distinction may be as little as one dot, as in "So. Viets" and "Soviets," the So. Viets being our friends in Indochina, and the Soviets being the enemy of that period. To be a member, you don't question, you don't ask; it's "Get on the Team" or else. One of its most powerful weapons in the most political and powerful capitals of the world is that of exclusion. To be denied the "need to know" status, like being a member of the Team, even though one may have all the necessary clearances, is to be totally blackballed and eliminated from further participation. Politically, if you are cut from the Team and from its insider's knowledge, you are dead. In many ways and by many criteria the Secret Team is the inner sanctum of a new religious order."

    "The power of the Team derives from its vast intragovernmental undercover infrastructure and its direct relationship with great private industries, mutual funds and investment houses, universities, and the news media, including foreign and domestic publishing houses. The Secret Team has very close affiliations with elements of power in more than three-score foreign countries and is able when it chooses to topple governments, to create governments, and to influence governments almost anywhere in the world."

    - Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty, Pentagon/CIA Focal Point liason, 1955-1963
    • Who is the Team Leader?

      Fri, November 18, 2005 - 8:25 PM
      There must be one super-powerful necromancer cause I'm damn sure they don't make final decisions by vote of committee. Doesn't anybody realize this?
      • sorry i realize this is a quotes page

        Fri, November 18, 2005 - 10:45 PM
        i'll try to keep my rantings and ravings to a separate script. :)
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          Sat, November 19, 2005 - 4:26 PM
          "Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will pledge with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will willingly be relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by their world government."

          ~ Henry Kissinger

          The question is if the threat is real or created BY the government. We sold Saddam weapons to fight Iran, trained Osama to fight Russia, Invaded Afghanistan and Iraq to control Caspian Sea oil, and I recently read the CIA has stronger relationship with Pakistan than we could have ever imagined.

          Who WANTS to fight these days? Nobody I know or associate with...
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    Fri, November 18, 2005 - 8:32 PM
    "These men are not incompetent or stupid. They are crafty and brilliant. Consistency has never been a mark of stupidity. If they were merely stupid, they would occasionally make a mistake in our favor."

    - James Forrestal, first secretary of defense, resigned March 2, 1949 at Truman’s request, later found “suicided” at Bethesda Naval Hospital
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    Fri, November 18, 2005 - 8:41 PM
    "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... And what are their objects? They do not attempt to conceal them. They do not want constitutional government... they want to change the tenure of land, to drive out the present owners of the soil and to put an end to ecclesiastical establishments."

    - British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli

    "The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes."

    - Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter

    "There are within our world perhaps only a dozen organizations which shape the courses of our various destinies as rigidly as the regularly constitued governments."

    - Elliot Roosevelt, son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

    "The USA is not run by its would-be 'democratic' government. Nothing could be more pathetic than the role that has to be played by the president of the United States, whose power is approximately zero. Nevertheless, the news media and most over-thirty-years-of-age USA citizens carry on as if th president has supreme power."

    - R. Buckminster Fuller
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      Mon, November 21, 2005 - 7:28 PM
      "If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest for freedom, go home and leave us in peace. We seek not your council nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." --Samuel Adams
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    Tue, November 22, 2005 - 3:47 PM
    A policeman's job is only easy in a police state.

    Hank Quinlan (Orson Welles)
    Touch of Evil
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    Fri, November 25, 2005 - 12:07 PM
    "War itself is the basic social system, within which other secondary modes of social organization conflict or conspire. It is the system which has governed most human societies of records, as it is today."

    "We must first reply, as strongly as we can, that the war system cannot responsibly be allowed to disappear until (1) we know exactly what [forms of social control] we plan to put in its place and (2) we are certain, beyond reasonable doubt, that these substitute institutions will serve their purposes."

    - The Report from Iron Mountain, 1966

    "American capitalism needed international rivalry - and periodic war - to create an artificial community of interest between rich and poor, supplanting the genuine community of interest among the poor that showed itself in sporadic movements."

    - Howard Zinn

    "War is a racket... War is largely a matter of money. Bankers lend money to foreign countries and when they cannot pay, the President sends Marines to get it."

    - Marine Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler