Listed below by category - are select quotes by people that provide valuable insights to the operation of our world. Hopefully this will get you interested in your surroundings and get you motivated to start asking questions. The answers are not on the TV.

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Banking & Money

John Kenneth Galbraith (Money: Whence it came, where it went - 1975, p15)

The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it.

Rt. Hon. Reginald McKenna (one time Chancellor of the Exchequer in Britain)

I am afraid the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can, and do, create and destroy money. The amount of money in existence varies only with the action of the banks in increasing or decreasing deposits and bank purchases. We know how this is effected. Every loan, overdraft or bank purchase creates a deposit, and every repayment of a loan, overdraft or bank sale destroys a deposit.

Governor Eccles (one time head of the Federal Reserve Bank of the USA)

The bank can create and destroy money. Bank credit is money. It's the money we do most of our business with, not with that currency we usually think of as currency.

Sir Josiah Stamp (President of the Bank of England 1928 - 1941, and the second richest man in Britain in the 1920s)

The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented.

Graham Towers (Governor of the Central Bank of Canada from 1935 to 1955) before the Canadian Government's Committee on Banking and Commerce in 1939

The manufacturing process [of money] consists of making a pen-and-ink or typewritten entry on a card or in a book. That is all.

Each and every time a bank makes a loan (or purchases securities) new bank credit is created - new deposits - brand new money.

Broadly speaking, all new money comes out of a bank in the form of loans.

As loans are debts, then under the present system, all money is debt.

The banks cannot, or course, loan the money of their depositors

John Kenneth Galbraith (Former Professor of Economics at Harvard)

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled….When a bank makes a loan, it simply adds to the borrower's deposit account in the bank by the amount of the loan. The money is not taken from anyone else's deposit; it was not previously paid in to the bank by anyone. It's new money, created by the bank for the use of the borrower.

Robert B Anderson (Secretary of the Treasury under Eisenhower) in an interview reported in the August 31, 1959 issue of U.S. News and World Report

Although banks no longer have the right to issue bank notes, they can create money in the form of bank deposits when they lend money to businesses, or buy securities….The important thing to remember is that when banks lend money they don’t necessarily take it from anyone else to lend. Thus they "create" it.

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Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the third President of the United States (1801–1809). One of the most influential Founding Fathers, Jefferson envisioned America as a great "Empire of Liberty" that would promote republicanism.

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property - until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.

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New World Order

Professor Carroll Quigley of Georgetown University (mentor to President Bill Clinton) in his book: Tragedy and Hope (Macmillan Company, 1966)

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 worlds' 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.

Brock Adams (Director UN Health Organization)

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.

Kofi Annan (U.N. Secretary General)

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

Congressman Larry P. McDonald - 1976 (killed in the Korean Airlines 747 that was shot down by the Soviets)

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.

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

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.

Strobe Talbot (President Clinton's Deputy Secretary of State) as quoted in Time, July 20th, l992.

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.

James Warburg (member of the Council on Foreign Relations ) to The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on February 17th, l950

We shall have world government whether or not you like it, by conquest or consent.

Woodrow Wilson (past President of the United States)

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.

Harpers, July l958

The most powerful clique in these [Council on Foreign Relations] groups have one objective in common: they want to bring about the surrender of the sovereignty and the national independence of the U.S. They want to end national boundaries and racial and ethnic loyalties supposedly to increase business and ensure world peace. What they strive for would inevitably lead to dictatorship and loss of freedoms by the people. The CFR was founded for "the purpose of promoting disarmament and submergence of U.S. sovereignty and national independence into an all-powerful one-world government."

Professor Arnold Toynbee, in a June l931 speech before the Institute for the Study of International Affairs in Copenhagen.

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.

Curtis Dall (Franklin D. Roosevelt's son-in-law) as quoted in his book: My Exploited Father-in-Law

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."

A letter written by Franklin D. Roosevelt to Colonel House, November 21st, l933

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centres has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson.

Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, 1952

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

U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater in his l964 book: With No Apologies

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 skilful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centres 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 nation states involved. As managers and creators of the system ,they will rule the future.

Richard Gardner (member of the CFR) writing in the April l974 issue of the CFR's journal, Foreign Affairs.

The New World Order will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down...but in the end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece will accomplish much more than the old fashioned frontal assault.

Former Congressman John Rarick 1971

The Council on Foreign Relations 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 announces and uses individuals and groups to bring pressure from below, to justify the high level decisions for converting the U.S. from a sovereign Constitutional Republic into a servile member state of a one-world dictatorship.