The few who understand the system
will either be so interested in its profits, or so dependent on its favours
that there will be no opposition from that class
while on the other hand
the great body of the people mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantage that capital derives from the system
will bear its burdens without complaint
and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical to their interests..
~ John Sherman ~
Protege of the Rothschild banking family, June 25, 1863
Source.. in a letter sent to New York bankers Morton and Gould in support of the then proposed National Banking Act