[I]t 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 tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”

Source: Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering

Topics: Freedom, Loss of

Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes it’s laws.

Source: Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild

Topics: Economics; Politics

Let vigorous measures be adopted; not to limit the prices of articles, for this I believe is inconsistent with the very nature of things, and impracticable in itself, but to punish speculators, forestallers, and extortioners, and above all to sink the money by heavy taxes. To promote public and private economy; encourage manufacturers, etc.

Source: George Washington
Writings of George Washington, 14:313.

Topics: Economics

[The] Bank of the United States... is one of the most deadly hostility existing, against the principles and form of our Constitution... An institution like this, penetrating by its branches every part of the Union, acting by command and in phalanx, may, in a critical moment, upset the government. I deem no government safe which is under the vassalage of any self-constituted authorities, or any other authority than that of the nation, or its regular functionaries. What an obstruction could not this bank of the United States, with all its branch banks, be in time of war! It might dictate to us the peace we should accept, or withdraw its aids. Ought we then to give further growth to an institution so powerful, so hostile?

Source: Thomas Jefferson, writing to Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin, in 1803

Topics: Economics

We are overdone with banking institutions, which have banished the precious metals, and substituted a more fluctuating and unsafe medium.... These have withdrawn capital from useful improvements and employments to nourish idleness.... [These] are evils more easily to be deplored than remedied.

Source: Thomas Jefferson
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 12:379-80

Topics: Economics

All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from defects in the Constitution or confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, as much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.

Source: John Adams
Works 8:447

Topics: Economics

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a monied aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power (of money) should be taken away from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.

Source: Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President

Topics: Economics

The few who understand the [banking] system, will either be so interested from it’s profits or so dependant on it’s favors, that there will be no opposition from that class.

Source: Rothschild Brothers of London, 1863

Topics: Economics

The Federal Reserve banks, while not part of the government,...

Source: United States budget for 1991 and 1992 part 7, page 10

Topics: Economics

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