NO QUARTER FOR CORRUPTION (Focussing on The Fed./FRBS)

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CONSPIRACY QUOTES

Matthew: It’s a conspiracy.
Jack Bellicec: What’s a conspiracy?
Matthew: Everything.
- W.D. Richter, Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (1978)

“A Conspiracy!” cried the delighted lady, clapping her hands. “Of all things, I do like a Conspiracy! It’s so interesting!”
- Lewis Carroll, My Lady, Sylvie and Bruno (1889)

"Security gives way to conspiracy."
- William Shakespeare, The soothsayer's message, Julius Caesar

"The wronger a conspiracy is, the better it is."
- Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy

"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

"Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it."
- Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom (1913)

"From the days of Sparticus Wieshophf, 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."
- Winston Churchill, 1922

"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.

"If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It’s the inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us. We are the flawed ones, the innocents, trying to make some rough sense of the daily jostle. Conspirators have a logic and a daring beyond our reach. All conspiracies are the same taut story of men who find coherence in some criminal act."
- Don Delillo, "In Dallas," Libra (1988)

"It is in our interests to let the police and their employers go on believing that the Underground is a conspiracy, because it increases their paranoia and their inability to deal with what is really happening. As long as they look for ringleaders and documents they will miss their mark, which is that proportion of every personality which belongs in the Underground."
- Germaine Greer, "The Million-Dollar Underground," Oz (London, July 1969)

"Money doesn’t mind if we say it’s evil, it goes from strength to strength. It’s a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy."
- Martin Amis, Novelists in Interveiw (1985)

"For a plot hatched in hell, don’t expect angels for witnesses."
- Robert Perry, prosecuting attorney in summation to jury at conspiracy trial of John De Lorean, August 6, 1984

"New York is the biggest mouth in the world. It appears to be prime example of the herd instinct, leading the universal urban conspiracy to beguile man from his birthright (the good ground), to hang him by his eyebrows from skyhooks above hard pavement, to crucify him, sell him, or be sold by him."
- Frank Lloyd Wright, The Living City (1958)

"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."
- Fredrick Douglas, Speech, April 1886

"It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them."
- Henry James, Hawthorne (1879)

"Impenetrable in their dissimulation, cruel in their vengeance, tenacious in their purposes, unscrupulous as to their methods, animated by profound and hidden hatred for the tyranny of man—it is as though there exists among them an ever-present conspiracy toward domination, a sort of alliance like that subsisting among the priests of every country."
- Denis Diderot, On Women (1772)

"Men are not suffering from the lack of good literature, good art, good theatre, good music, but from that which has made it impossible for these to become manifest. In short, they are suffering from the silent shameful conspiracy (the more shameful since it is unacknowledged) which has bound them together as enemies of art and artists."
- Henry Miller, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymous Bosch (1958)

"The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart."
- John Jay Chapman, Practical Agitation (1898)

"There is great fear expressed on all sides lest this war shall be made a war for the negro. I am willing that it shall be. It is a war to found an empire on the negro in slavery, and shame on us if we do not make it a war to establish the negro in freedom—against whom the whole nation, North and South, East and West, in one mighty conspiracy, has combined from the beginning."
- Susan B. Anthony, Speech to the national convention of the Woman's National Loyal League, May 14, 1863

"The right wing benefited so much from September 11 that, if I were still a conspiratorialist, I would believe they'd done it."
- Norman Mailer, on national patriotism (US News & World Report, February 18, 2002)

"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."
- Adam Smith

"The idea was that those who direct the overall conspiracy could use the differences in those two so-called ideologies [marxism/fascism/socialism vs. democracy/capitalism] to enable them [the Illuminati] to divide larger and larger portions of the human race into opposing camps so that they could be armed and then brainwashed into fighting and destroying each other."
- Myron Fagan

"In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.... Those who are subjected to wrong under multitudes are deprived of all external consolation: they seem deserted by mankind, overpowered by a conspiracy of their whole species."
- Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790

"For thirty years the people of North Dakota have been exploited by the millers, the manufacturers, the money loaners, and the railroads centering in the Twin Cities. They bought our goods at unreasonably low figures and sold us back the manufactured product at inflated prices, after we had paid the freight both ways. Even farm mortgages drew a higher rate in North Dakota than on the same class of land in Minnesota. As a consequence North Dakota has not prospered as it should."
- Senator Gerald P. Nye, 1919

"Ever since the first pioneer fought his way through the lonely trails across the Alleghenies and began the development of that part of the continent west of the Atlantic seaboard, there has been growing up a theory and practice that the resources of the United States were created by the Almighty for the benefit and profit of those who live in the great cities of the East. . . . Only a cursory knowledge of present-day conditions is required for a realization that the entire economic structure, the entire financial system, indeed, the whole philosophy of government as manifest in its practical applications, is designed for the benefit of that group of States which lie east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio and Potomac Rivers."
- Senator Gerald P. Nye, 1928

"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 unkown, and I believe its role in history is significant enough to be known."
- Professor Carroll Quigley, Tradgey and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time, 1966

"...his [the individual's] freedom and choice will be controlled within very narrow alternatives by the fact that he will be numbered from birth and followed, as a number, through his educational training, his required military or other public service, his tax contributions, his health and medical requirements, and his final retirement and death benefits."
- Professor Carroll Quigley, Tradgey and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time, 1966

"This... society operates in an extremely efficient manner at least in its higher levels of leadership. It makes use of every possible means at its disposal, be they scientific, techincal, social or economic. It follows a perfectly mapped-out strategy. It holds almost complete sway in international organizations, in financial circle, in the field of mass communications; press, cinema, radio and television."
- Father Pedro Arrupe, UPI, December 27, 1965

"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way."
- F.D.R.

"Those who believe that major world events result from planning are laughed at for believing in the 'conspiracy theory of history.' Of course, no one in this modern day and age really believes in the conspiracy theory of history - except those who have taken the time to study the subject. When you think about it, there are really only two theories of history. Either things happen by accident neither planned nor caused by anybody, or they happen because they are planned and somebody causes them to happen. In reality, it is the 'accidental theory of history' preached in the unhallowed Halls of Ivy which should be ridiculed. Otherwise, why does every recent administration make the same mistakes as the previous ones? Why do they repeat the errors of the past which produce inflation, depressions and war? ... If you believe it is all an accident or the result of mysterious and unexplainable tides of history, you will be regarded as an 'intellectual' who understands that we live in a complex world. If you believe that something like 32,496 consecutive coincidences over the past forty years stretches the law of averages a bit, you are a kook!"
- Gary Allen, None Dare Call It Conspiracy, 1971

"...the most effective weapons used against the conspiratorial theory of history are ridicule and satire. These extremely potent weapons can be cleverly used to avoid any honest attempt at refuting the facts. After all, nobody lilkes to be made fun of. Rather than be ridiculed most people will keep quiet; and, this subject certainly does lend itself to ridicule and satire. One technique which can be used is to expand the conspiracy to the extent it becomes absurd. For instance, our man from the Halls of Poison Ivy might say in a scoffingly arrogant tone, 'I suppose you believe every liberal professor gets a telegram each morning from conspiracy headquarters containing his orders for the day's brainwashing of his students?' Some conspiratorialists do indeed overdraw the picture by expanding to included every local knee-jerk liberal activist and govenment bureaucrat. Or, because of racial or religious bigotry, expand them into a conclusion that will support their particular prejudice, i.e., the conspiracy is totally 'Jewish,' 'Catholic,' or 'Masonic.' These people do not help to expose the conspiracy, but, sadly play into the hands of those who want the public to believe that all conspiratorialists are screwballs."
- Gary Allen, None Dare Call It Conspiracy, 1971

"...don't ever, ever use the word conspiracy if you expect applause, for that is when the wrath of Liberaldom will be unleashed against you. We are not disallowed from believing in all types of conspiracy, just modern political conspiracy.... Conspiracy to seize the power of government is as old as government itself. We can study the conspiracies surrounding Alcibiades in Greece or Julius Caesar in ancient Rome, but we are not supposed to think that men today scheme to achieve political power."
- Gary Allen, None Dare Call It Conspiracy, 1971

"In order to understand the conspiracy it is necessary to have some rudimentary knowledge of banking and, particularly, of international bankers. While it would be an over-simplification to ascribe the entire conspiracy to international bankers, they nevertheless have played a key role.... Where do governments get the enormous amounts of money they need? Most, of course, comes from taxation; but governments often spend more than they are willing to tax from their citizens and so are forced to borrow. ... The public is led to believe that our government borrows from 'the people' through savings bonds. Actually, only the smallest percentage of the national debt is held by individuals in this form. Most government bonds, except those owned by the government itself through its trust funds, are held by vast banking firms known as international banks."
- Gary Allen, None Dare Call It Conspiracy, 1971

"If you look back at every war in Europe during the Nineteenth Century, you will see that they always ended with the establishment of a 'balance of power.' With every re-shuffling there was a balance of power in a new grouping around the House of Rothschild in England, France, or Austria. They grouped nations so that if any king got out of line a war would break out and the war would be decided by which way the financing went. Researching the debt positions of the warring nations will usually indicate who was to be punished."
- Professor Stuart Crane

"I am one of those who do not believe the national debt is a national blessing... it is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country."
- Andrew Jackson, letter, April 26, 1824

"... [T]here today exists uncontrolled in the hands of a set of men a power to make dollars from nothing."
- Thomas W. Lawson Frenzied Finance, 1905

"Those that create and issue the money and credit direct the policies of government and hold in their hands the destiny of the people."
- Reginald McKenna, President of the Midlands Bank of England

"Half a dozen men at the top of the Big Five Banks could upset the whole fabric of government finance by refraining from renewing Treasury Bills."
- London Financial Times, September 26, 1921

"It must not be felt that these heads of the world's chief central banks were themselves substantive powers in world finance. They were not. Rather, they were the technicians and agents of the dominant investment bankers of their own countries, who had raised them up and were perfectly capable of throwing them down. The substantive financial powers of the world were in the hands of these investments bankers (also called 'international' or 'merchant' bankers) who remained largely behind the scenes in their own unicorporated private banks. These formed a system of international cooperation and national dominance which was more private, more powerful, and more secret than that of their agents in the central banks..."
- Professor Carroll Quigley, Tradgey and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time, 1966

"Under the surface, the Rothschilds long had a powerful influence in dictating American financial laws. The law records show that they were powers in the old Bank of the United States [abolished by Andrew Jackson]."
- Gustavus Myers, History of The Great American Fortunes

"Among the Morgans, Kuhn-Loebs and other similar pillars of the industrial order there was less disposition to become involved in disagreements that led to financial dislocation. A community of interest came into being, with results that were highly beneficial...."
- Proctor Hansl, Years of Plunder

"Oakleigh Thorne, the president of that particular trust company, testified later before a congressional committee that his bank had been subject to only moderate withdrawls ... and that he had not applied for help, and that it was the [Morgan's] 'sore point' statement alone that had caused the run on his bank. From this testimony, plus the disciplinary measures taken by the Clearing House against Heinze, Morse and Thomas banks, plus other fragments of supposedly pertinent evidence, certain chroniclers have arrived at the ingenious conclusion that the Morgan interests took advantage of the unsettled conditions during the autumn of 1907 to precipitate the panic, guiding it shrewdly as it progressed so that it would kill off rival banks and consolidate the preeminence of the banks within the Morgan orbit. ... The lesson of the Panic of 1907 was clear, though not for some six years was it destined to be embodied in legislation: the United States gravely needed a central banking system..."
- Frederick Lewis Allen, Life Magazine, April 25, 1949

"Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly."
- Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto, Fifth Plank

"Despite my views about the value to society of greater publicity for the affairs of corporations, there was an occasion, near the close of 1910, when I was as secretive - indeed as furtive - as any conspirator .... I do not feel it is any exaggeration to speak of our secret expedition to Jekyl Island as the occasion of the actual conception of what eventually became the Federal Reserve System."
- Frank Vanderlip

"After a general discussion [at Jekyl Island] it was decided to draw up certain broad principles on which all could agree. Every member of the group voted for a central bank as being the cornerstone for any banking system."
- B.C. Forbes, Men Who Are Making America

"As soon as Roosevelt signified that he would again challenge Taft the President's defeat was inevitable. Throughout the three-cornered fight [Taft-Roosevelt-Wilson] Roosevelt had [Morgan agents Frank] Munsey and [George] Perkins constantly at his heels, supplying money, going over his speeches, bringing people from Wall Street in to help, and in general, carrying the entire burden of the campaign against Taft.... Perkins and J.P. Morgan and Company were the substance of the Progessive Party; everything else was trimming.... In short, most of Roosevelt's campaign fund was supplied by the two Morgan hatchet men who were seeking Taft's scalp."
- Ferdinand Lundberg, America's 60 Families

"Now although the Aldrich Federal Reserve Plan was defeated when it bore the name Aldrich, nevertheless its essential points were all contained in the plan that finally was adopted."
- Fank Vanderlip

"The bill [Federal Reserve Act] as it stands seems to me to open the way to a vast inflation of currency.... I do not like to think that any law can be passed which will make it possible to submerge the gold standard in a flood of irredeemable paper currency."
- Henry Cabot Lodge Sr., Congressional Record, June 10, 1932

"This act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth.... When the President signs this act the invisible government by the money power, proven to exist by the Money Trust investigation, will be legalized.... This is the Aldrich Bill in disguise.... The new law will create inflation whenever the trusts want inflation.... From now on depressions will be scientifically created."
- Congressman Charles A. Lindberg Sr.

"Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money."
- Daniel Webster

"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America rise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation."
- John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson, 1787

"Gold is still the ultimate store of wealth. It's the world's only true money. And there isn't much of it to go aroung. All of it ever mined would fit into a small building - a 56 fott cube. The annual world production would fit into a 14 foot cube, roughly the size of an ordinary living room. If each Chinese citizen were to buy just one ounce, it would take up the annual supply for the next 200 years."
- Mark Nestman

"In the United States today we have in effect two governments.... We have the duly constituted Government.... Then we have an independent, uncontrolled and uncoordinated government in the Federal Reserve System, operating the money powers which are reserved to Congress by the Constitution."
- Congressman Wright Patman, Chairman of the House Banking Committee


"Q: Do you approve of the latest credit-tightening moves?

A" It's not my job to approve or disapprove. It is the action of the Federal Reserve."
- Secretary of the Treasury David M. Kennedy, U.S. News & World Report, May 5, 1969


"It [the depression] was not accidental. It was a carefully contrived occurrence.... The international bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair here so that they might emerge as the rulers of us all."
- Congressman Louis T. McFadden, Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee

"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 will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to then Secretary of the Treasury, Albert Gallatin, 1802

"100% of what is collected is absorbed soley by interest on the Federal Debt ... all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services taxpayers expect from government."
- Grace Commission Report, submitted to President Ronald Reagan on January 15, 1984

"There is no proletarian, not even a Communist, movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, in the direction indicated by money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact."
- Oswald Sprengler, Decline of the West, 1945

"There must have been more deliberate lying in the world from 1914 to 1918 than in any other period in the world's history."
- Arthur Ponsonby, Falsehood In War Time, 1928

"[Had the U.S. not entered WWI] ...peace would have been made with Germany; and there would have been no collapse in Russia leading to Communism; no breakdown of government in Italy followed by Fascism; and Naziism never would have gained ascendancy in Germany."
- Winston Churchill, Social Justice Magazine, July 3, 1939

"The main purveyors of funds for the revolution, however, were neither the crackpot Russian millionaires nor the armed bandits of Lenin. The 'real' money primarily came from certain British and American circles which for a long time past had lent their support to the Russian revolutionary cause.... The important part played by the wealthy American banker, Jacob Schiff, in the events in Russia, though as yet only partially revealed, is no longer secret.... In April 1917, Jacob Schiff publicly declared that it was thanks to his financial support that the revolution in Russia had succeeded. In the Spring of the same year, Schiff commenced to subsidize Trotsky... Simultaneously Trotsky and Co. were also being subsidized by Max Warburg and Olaf Aschberg of the Nye Banken of Stockholm... The Rhine Westphalian Syndicate and Jivotovsky, ... whose daughter later married Trotsky. ... Mr. Bakhmetiev, the late Russian Imperial Ambassador to the United States, tells us that the Bolsheviks, after victory, transferred 600 million roubles in gold between 1918 and 1922 to Kuhn, Loeb & Company [Schiff's firm].""
- Arsene de Goulevitch, Czarism and the Revolution

"Today it is estimated by Jacob's grandson, John Schiff, that the old man sank about 20,000,000 dollars for the final triumph of Bolshevism in Russia. "
- New York Journal-American, February 3, 1949

"The seven wills of Cecil Rhodes made between the ages of 24 and 46 [Rhodes died at 48] constitute a kind of spiritual autobiography.... Best known are the first (the Secret Society Will), and the last, which established the Rhodes Scholarships.... In his first will Rhodes states his aim still more specifically: 'The extention of British rule throughout the world ... the foundation of so great a power as to hereafter render wars impossible and promote the interests of humanity.' The 'Confession of Faith' enlarges upon these ideas. The model for this proposed secret society was the Society of Jesus, though he mentions also the Masons."
- Frank Aydelotte, American Rhodes Scholarships

"Secrecy is indispensable in a Mason of whatever degree."
- Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma, 4th Degree, p. 109

"The secrecy of this institution is another and most important landmark... If divested of its secret character, it would lose its identity, and would cease to be Freemasonry... death of the Order would follow its legalized exposure. Freemasonry, as a secret association, has lived unchanged for centuries; as an open society it would not last for as many years."
- Albert Mackey, Textbook of Masonic Jurisprudence, 23rd Landmark, "Secrecy"

"You must conceal all the crimes of your brother Masons... and should you be summoned as a witness against a brother Mason be always sure to shield him... It may be perjury to do this, it is true, but you're keeping your obligations."
- Ronayne, Handbook of Masonry, p. 183

"At the end of the war of 1914, it became clear that the organization of this system [the Round Table Group] had to be greatly extended. Once again the task was entrusted to Lionel Curtis who established, in England and each dominion, a front organization to the existing Round Table Group. This front organization, called the Royal Institute of International Affairs [R.I.I.A.], had as its nucleus in each area the existing submerged Round Table Group. In New York it was know as the Council on Foreign Relations [C.F.R.], and was a front for J.P. Morgan and Company in association with the very small American Round Table Group. The American organizers were dominated by the large number of Morgan 'experts,' ...who had gone to the Paris Peace Conference and there became close friends with the similar group of English 'experts' which had been recruited by the Milner group. In fact, the original plans for the Royal Institute of International Affairs and the Council on Foreign Relations were drawn up in Paris...."
- Professor Carroll Quigley, Tradgey and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time, 1966

"On the west side of fashionable Park Avenue at 68th Street [in New York City] sit two handsome buildings across the way from each other. One is the Soviet Embassy to the United Nations.... Directly opposite on the southwest corner is the Council on Foreign Relations - probably one of the most influential semi-public organizations in the field of foreign policy. ...its roster... contains names distinguished in the field of diplomacy, government, business, finance, science, labor, journalism, law and education. What united so wide-ranging and disparate a membership is a passionate concern for the direction of American foreign policy. ... Because of the Council's single-minded dedication to studying and deliberating American foreign policy, there is a constant flow of its members from private to public service. Almost half of the Council members have been invited to assume official government positions or to act as consultants at one time or another."
- Christian Science Monitor, September 1, 1961

"It [the C.F.R.] has been the seat of some basic government decisions, has set the context for many more, and has repeatedly served as a recruiting ground for ranking officials."
- Joseph Kraft, "School for Statesmen", Harpers

"With the outbreak of war in Europe it was clear that the United States would be confronted, after the war, with new and exceptional problems.... Accordingly, a Committee on Post-War Problems was set up before the end of 1939 [two years before the U.S. entered the war!], at the suggestion of the C.F.R. The Committee consisted of high officials of the Department of State [all but one of whom were C.F.R. members]. It was assisted by a research staff [provided by, financed by, and directed by the C.F.R.], which in February, 1941, was organized into a Division of Special Research [and went off the C.F.R. payroll and onto that of the State Department]. [After Pearl Harbor] the research facilities were rapidly expanded, and the Departmental Committee on Post-War Problems was reorganized into an Advisory Committee on Post-War Foreign Policies [completely staffed by the C.F.R.]."
- State Department Publication 2349, Report to the President On The Results of the San Fransisco Conference

"Great popular support and enthusiasm for the United Nations policies should be built up, well organized and fully articulate. But it is necessary to do more than that. The opposition must be rendered so impotent that it will be unable to gather any significant support in the Senate against the United Nations Charter and the treaties which will follow."
- Political Affairs [published by the C.F.R.], April 1945

"...building a new international order [which] must be responsive to world aspirations for peace, [and] for social and economic change ... an international order ... including states labeling themselves as 'Socialist.'"
- Study No. 7 [published by the C.F.R.], November 25, 1959

"There does exist, and has existed for a generation, and international ... network which operates, to some extent, in the way the radical Right believes 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."
- Professor Carroll Quigley, Tradgey and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time, 1966

"The members of the council [C.F.R.] are persons of much more than average influence in their community. They have used the prestige that their wealth, their social position, and their education have given them to lead their country toward bankruptcy and military debacle. They should look at their hands. There is blood on them - the dried blood of the last war and the fresh blood of the present one [the Korean War]."
- Editorial, Chicago Tribune, December 9, 1950

"A rather tight lid of secrecy was being kept on the conference [Bildergerg Group]... A closed-door meeting was held in Woodstock last week to brief a handful of local officials on some phases of the conference. One participant of the meeting insisted Monday that the officials were told the meeting would be an 'international peace conference.' However, other reliable sources said the conference will deal with international finance.... The Woodstock Inn will apparently by sealed up like Fort Knox. ... No press coverage will be allowed, with the exception of issuing a statement at the close of the meeting on Sunday."
- Herald [Rutland, Vermont], April 20, 1971

"For one thing, there is a sort of unconscious conspiracy between the President [Nixon] and his natural enemies, the liberal Democrats, to conceal the extent to which his basic program, leaving aside frills and rhetoric, is really the liberal Democratic program. Richard Nixon is the first professional politician and 'real Republican' to be elected President in 40 years - and it is not to the self-interest of the liberals to give credit to such a President for liberal initiatives. By the same token, it is not in the self-interest of the President to risk his conservative constituency by encouraging the notion that he is not a 'real Republican' after all, but a liberal Democrat at cut rates....most people and maybe most congressmen think the Administration is indulging the Pentagon even more than the Democrats, which is the precise opposite of the truth...."
- Stewart Alsop

"...that Nixon telephone Rockefeller personally with his request for a meeting; that they meet at the Rockefeller apartment ... that their meeting be secret and later be announced in a press release from the Governor, not Nixon; that the meeting be clearly announced as taking place at the Vice President's request; that the statement of policy issuing from it be long, detailed, inclusive, not a summary communique. ... Never had the quadrenial liberal swoop of the regulars been more nakedly dramatized than by the open compact of Fifth Avenue. Whatever honor they might have been able to carry from their services on the platform committee had been wiped out. A single night's meeting of the two men in a millionaire's triplex apartment in Babylon-by-the-Hudson, eight hundred and thirty miles away, was about to overrule them; they were exposed as clowns for all the world to see."
- Theodore White, The Making of the President 1960, 1961

"Also at the convention, men from the Business International Roundtables - the meetings sponsored by Business International for their client groups and heads of government - tried to buy up a few radicals. These men are the world's leading industrialists and they convene to decide how our lives are going to go. These are the boys who wrote the Alliance for Progress. They're the left wing of the ruling class. They agreed with us on black control and student control.... They want McCarthy in. They see fascism as the threat, see it coming from Wallace. The only way McCarthy could win is if the crazies and young radicals act up and make Gene look more reasonable. They offered to finance our demonstrations in Chicago. We were also offered Esso (Rockefeller) money. They want us to make a lot of radical commotion so they can look more in the center as they move to the left."
- James Kunen, The Strawberry Statement: Notes of A College Revolutionary

"Of course, we know that these radical students are not going to take over the government. What they are going to do is provide the excuse for the government to take over the people, by passing more and more repressive laws to 'keep things under control.'"
- Frank Capell, The Review of The News

"The United States' persistent support for Israel stems from the sad history of colonization. The United States of America has been colonized by the Zionists who hold all the tools of development and power. They own virtually all the banking institutions, the major manufacturing and processing industries and the major means of communication; and have so much infiltrated the CIA that they are posing a great threat to nations and peoples which may be opposed to the atrocious Zionist movement. They have turned the CIA into a murder squad to eliminate any form of resistance anywhere in the world... How can we expect freedom, peace and justice in the world when such a powerful nation as the United States of America is in the hands of the Zionists? I call upon the people of the United States of America whose forefathers founded this State 'conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are born equal' to rid their society of the Zionists in order that the true citizens of this nation may control their own destiny and exploit the natural resources of their country to their own benefit."
- Idi Amin, Speech to the United Nations' Seventh Special Session of the General Assembly, 1975

"Is it not at very least possible for some of us to see that no matter who prevails in the disputes that so very much absorb us in the world, the ultimate victor in every instance seems to be the state, and the state system, and the increasing forced identity of the individual with the state and the fortunes of the state?"
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan, A Dangerous Place, 1978

"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer."
- Henry Kissinger

"In 1883, a small group of Socialists met in London, announcing their intentions of converting the British economic system from capitalism to socialism. This group chose the name 'Fabian Society.' One of the leading members of the Fabian Society, author George Bernard Shaw, perhaps summed it up best when he said, quote: '... Socialism means equality of income or nothing... under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well."
- Edgar Wallace Robinson, Rolling Thunder, 1980

"The high office of President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom, and before I leave office I must inform the citizen of his plight."
- John F. Kennedy, speech at Columbia University, 10 days before his assassination

"IBM considers itself an extension of the U.S. government - and it is."
- Tom Mechling, former executive assistant to the CEO of IBM

"Curiously, often a classic manifestation of people who are afflicted with certain psychotic disorders is the irrational fear that the CIA and FBI is conspiring to harm them. In this case, the CIA involvement is real and the covert nature of the involvement is not contested."
- Orlikow v. United States (1988)

"Now that we can control the weather, create earthquakes and tidal waves and use it as a weapon of war we do not need a treaty."
- Senator Claiborne Pell, Senate Intelligence Committe member, commenting on a USA/USSR treaty signed in 1978

"We meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political, and material ruin. Corruption dominates the ballot-box, the Legislatures, the Congress, and touches even the ermine on the bench [judges]... The newspapers are largely subsidized or muzzled, public opinion silenced... and the land concentrating in the hands of the capitalists. The urban workmen are denied the right of organization for self-protection; imported pauperized labor beats down their wages; a hirely army, unrecognized by our laws, is established to shoot them down..."
- Ignatius Donnelly, Caesar's Column, 1892

"...a vast conspiracy against mankind has been organized on two continents, and it is rapidly taking possession of the world. If not met and overthrown at once it forebodes... the establishment of an absolute despotism."
- Ignatius Donnelly, Caesar's Column, 1892

"The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am president that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's."
- Harry S. Truman, Time, September 18, 1956

"Without censorship things can get terribly confusing in the public mind."
- Gen. William C. Westmoreland, Time, April 5, 1982

"Disinformation is most effective in a very narrow context. ... You take a fraction of reality and expand on it. Its seldom totally at odds with the facts... Its shaving a piece of reality off."
- Frank Snepp, former CIA agent, 1985

"The real rulers of Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes."
- US Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter

"Paper money polluted the equity of our laws, turned them into engines of oppression, corrupted the justice of our public administration, destroyed the fortunes of thousands who had confidence in it, enervated the trade, husbandry, and manufactures of our country, and went far to destroy the morality of our people."
- Peletiah Webster

"Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are United States Government Institution. They are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers."
- Congressman Louis T. McFadden, Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee, June 20, 1932

"The Federal Reserve Board, a government board, has cheated the government of the United States and the people of the United States out of enough money to pay the national debt. The depredations and the iniquities of the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks acting together have cost this country enough money to pay the national debt several times over."
- Rep. Louis T. McFadden, Congressional Record pages 12595-12603

A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks."
- John Caldwell Calhoun, 1836

"The real menace of our republic is the invisible government, which, like a giant octopus, sprawls it's slimy legs over our cities, states, and nation."
- John F. Hylan, Mayor of New York City (1918-1925)

"The sovereign right to regulate commerce among our magnificent union of States, and to control the instruments of commerce, the right to issue the currency and to determine the money supply for sixty-three billion people and their posterity, have been leased to associated speculators. The brightest lights of the legal profession have been lured away from their honorable relation to the people in the administration of justice, and through evolution in crime the corporation has taken the place of the pirate; and finally a bold and aggressive plutocracy has usurped the government and is using it as a policeman to enforce it's insolent decrees."
- General James B. Weaver, A Call to Action, 1892

"What is important is to dwell upon the increasing evidence of the existence of a secret conspiracy throughout the world, for the destruction of organized government and the letting loose of evil."
- editorial, Christian Science Monitor, June 19, 1920

"Our cause is a secret within a secret, a secret that only another secret can explain, it is a secret about a secret that is veiled by a secret."
- Ja'far as-Sadiq (6th Imam)

"The charge was specifically the dark one of conspiracy - in this case to fix prices, rig bids and divide markets in a series of secret cartels on electrical equipment valued at $1.75 billion annually. The leading defendants pleaded guilty to the most serious counts, no contest to the rest. The conspiracies extended over many years, going back prior to World War II and in the opinion of some observers to 1896. Surprisingly, this conspiracy was carried on with all the guilt-conscious cloak-and-dagger techniques known to spies: secret codes, mysterious meetings in hotel rooms, queer notes, guarded telephone calls, concealed records, fictitious names, burned memoranda and the like. No patron of TV or the films, watching the actors, could have failed to recognize that an authentic, vintage conspiracy was afoot. Only sinister music was lacking."
- Ferdinand Lundberg, The Rich and the Super-Rich, 1968

"Internal Audit is a notoriously closed group within the IRS, like a private club or a secret society, and acts accordingly when one of its members is attacked, particularly when one of its members on an executive level is attacked from within the community, by one of his subordinates."
- Shelley L. Davis, Unbridled Power: Inside the Secret Culture of the IRS, 1997

"I think the number of Nazi criminals who came here after the war is at least 10,000. I would assume they are all still here except for those who have died and those who have been deported. The United States was a haven for Nazi war criminals."
- Neal M. Sher, director of Office of Special Investigations, 1987

"In fact one thing that I have noticed... is that all of these conspiracy theories all depend on the perpetrators being endlessly clever. I think you'll find the facts also work if you assume everyone is endlessly stupid."
- Brian E. Moore

"The one thing these conspirators cannot survive is exposure. The Insiders are successful only because so few of their victims know what is being planned and how Insiders are carrying out those plans. Conspiracies can operate only in the dark. They cannot stand the truthful light of day. Once any sizeable minority of the American people becomes aware of the conspiracy and what it is up to, the many decades of patient planning and work by the Insiders in this country can be destroyed in an amazingly short period of time."
- Gary Allen, None Dare Call It Conspiracy, 1971


The General's reputation for honesty and patriotism made what he said under oath impossible to ignore. The Secretaries of War and the Navy, U.S. Senators and Representatives urged that the Committee get to the bottom of the conspiracy. McCormack assured newsmen: "We will call all the men mentioned in the story." Co-chairman Dickstein added: "From present indications Butler has the evidence. He's not going to make any serious charges unless he has something to back them up. We'll have men here with bigger names than his."
- John Spivak, A Man in His Time (1967)


It looked as if the Committee would die in a matter of weeks, and I asked to see the transcript of Butler's testimony for possible leads that I could follow up. Since news stories and the Committee's own press release had named some of the prominent persons Butler mentioned, I persisted in asking why, if there were no secrets involving the national security, I could not see it. Other newsmen joined me in asking for the Butler testimony. Presumably to quiet the growing public concern over why it was not made public, the Committee published a 125-page document containing the testimonies of the General and others. The report was clearly marked "Extracts." On the last page, a note appeared saying that "the committee had ordered stricken... certain immaterial and incompetent evidence, or evidence which was not pertinent to the inquiry."

The extracts held me spellbound; this was living history - personalities, colorful characters, secret maneuvers on national and international scales. This was a planned gamble with the most powerful government in the world as the stakes.

The reasons given for making public only extracts of the Committee testimony smelled like what my cat does in his pan. The Committee had already published hearsay evidence, and this sudden sensitivity about publishing similar testimony was puzzling. For days I tried to learn what Butler testimony had been cut out. All of my efforts were fruitless. A wall of granite had suddenly appeared, but all that did was whet my appetite to know what was going on. The Committee had announced that it intended to subpoena all of those named by Butler, yet it later issued an announcement that it had no evidence on which to question the prominent persons named.
- John Spivak, A Man in His Time (1967)


The McCormack-Dickstein Committee had asked the House to extend its life to January 3, 1937, so that it could continue with its investigations, but the House refused; the Committee died. It even seemed possible that the Committee had been killed because unidentified, influential forces feared that public opinion might compel a deeper investigation into the fascist plot and concluded it would be better to forego even investigations into communist activities than risk that.
- John Spivak, A Man in His Time (1967)


"I felt a very definite resentment against this Committee, for which I otherwise had strong approval. It had subpoenaed Nazis, fascists and communists, yet did not question those whose names were mentioned in testimony about a treasonable plot against the U.S. The rich and influential seemed to have a unique ability to avoid being called before a committee investigating un-American activities. So far as I could determine, there had not been even one phone call to these personages to ask - just for the record and with the greatest apologies - if they had ever heard of this plot. Instead, it did not even ask MacGuire who told him the things he told the General.

"It was possible, of course, that the deletions were not due to pressures by any of those named by Butler, but to a policy decision on the highest level. What would be the public gain from delving deeper into a plot which was already exposed and whose principals could be kept under surveillance? Roosevelt had enough headaches in those troubled days without having to confront men of great wealth and power. Was it avoidance of such a confrontation that curtailed the investigation? Was it a desire by the head of the Democratic Party to avoid matters which could split the party down the middle, considering that Davis and Smith, two former party heads, were among those named by Butler?

"I was both angry and troubled that after a conspiracy of this magnitude had been disclosed by a national hero and verified by a committee of the Congress, nothing was being done.

"Since MacGuire had denied essential parts of Butler's testimony, which the Committee said it had proved by documents, bank records and letters, I went to the Department of Justice to ask what it planned to do about MacGuire's testimony. I was told that it had no plans to prosecute."
- John Spivak, A Man in His Time (1967)


"The Congressional Committee investigating un-American activities has reported that the Fascist plot to seize the government...was proved; yet not a single participant will be prosecuted under the perfectly plain language of the federal conspiracy act making this a high crime. Imagine the action if such a plot were discovered among Communists!"
- Roger Baldwin, director of the American Civil Liberties Union (1935)


"The documentary evidence, which is referred to elsewhere, was pretty well suppressed by the newspapers, but the predecessor of the Dies Committee -- the McCormack-Dickstein Committee -- eventually confirmed the most sensational charges, concluded that there had been a plot and that certain American Legion leaders and well-known men of Wall Street, one closely connected with the House of Morgan, had indeed planned the first American fascist dictatorship.

"At the mention of the magic name "Morgan" the Luce publications mobilized in defense. Everything from distortion to the usual "light touch" of the famous "bright young men" of the Luce employ, the usual sneers and the usual adjectival barrage by men well trained in semantics, came into play to protect the most sacred cow worshiped in America, the Big Money for which J. P. Morgan was first high priest.

"...Any reader comparing the testimony and the Committee report on this event; given in the appendix of this book, must conclude that the Time report consists of distortion and propaganda.

"The case of the House of Morgan and World War I and the handling of the conspiracy uncovered by General Butler, and their treatment by Time, and other Luce publications, are but two of scores of instances illustrating the community of interest which exists between the banking house and the Luce press. The amount of stock all the men of Wall Street own in the Luce publications may be only a small percentage, but it pays a dividend, which cannot be measured in dollars only."
- George Seldes, 1000 Americans (1947)


"...New Outlook took the shot that he [MacGuire] told me a month before they were going to take. This fellow has been able to tell me a month or six weeks ahead of time everything that happened."
- Major-General Smedley D. Butler, USMC, as quoted in A Man in His Time by John Spivak (1967)

"We supervised elections in Haiti, and wherever we supervised them our candidate always won."
- Major-General Smedley D. Butler, USMC, as quoted in A Man in His Time by John Spivak (1967)

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.

"The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where the interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing."
- Henry Adams, The Letters of Henry Adams

"In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces."
– Michael Bakunin

"With all that IMF money, the Thailand's and Mexico's are spared the consequences of their fiscal incompetence, and Wall Street's heavy hitters are spared the consequences of their stupid investments. The global economy is a rigged game, rigged so Third World politicians, rich investors and global corporations win – and U.S. taxpayers lose."
– Patrick J. Buchanan

"Going to war accelerated the move from indirect to direct rule. Almost any state that makes war finds that it cannot pay for the effort from its accumulated reserves and current revenues. Almost all war-making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat – including men – from reluctant citizens who have other uses for their resources."
– Charles Tilly

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