MANIPULATING THE PUBLIC: CORRUPTION, VOTING, LIBERTY AND INJUSTICE: ILLUMINATI POLITICIANS QUOTED
- ParrisVstefanow
- May 6
- 7 min read
Corruption; "There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fund raising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself." - Senator Daniel K. Inouye
- "The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes. " - Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, 1952
- "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
- "Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day." - Theodore Roosevelt
- "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)
- "A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in banks." - John C. Calhoun, Vice President of the United States
- "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies...The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the Government, to whom it properly belongs." - Thomas Jefferson
- "If the people only understood the rank injustice of our Money and Banking system, there would be a revolution before morning." - Andrew Jackson
- "There is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite accumulation of property from the capacity of holding it in perpetuity by... corporations. The power of all corporations ought to be limited in this respect. The growing wealth acquired by them never fails to be a source of abuses." - James Madison
- "In this point of the case the question is distinctly presented whether the people of the United States are to govern through representatives chosen by their unbiased suffrages or whether the money and power of a great corporation are to be secretly exerted to influence their judgment and control their decisions." - Andrew Jackson
- "I am more than ever convinced of the dangers to which the free and unbiased exercise of political opinion -- the only sure foundation and safeguard of republican government -- would be exposed by any further increase of the already overgrown influence of corporate authorities." - Martin Van Buren, Eighth President of the United States
- "As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations, and monopolies, while the citizen is struggling far in the rear or is trampled to death beneath an iron heel. Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people's masters." - Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States
- "I again recommend a law prohibiting all corporations from contributing to the campaign expenses of any party.... Let individuals contribute as they desire; but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose, directly or indirectly." Teddy Roosevelt added, "The fortunes amassed through corporate organization are now so large, and vest such power in those that wield them, as to make it a matter of necessity to give to the sovereign -- that is, to the Government, which represents the people as a whole -- some effective power of supervision over their corporate use. In order to insure a healthy social and industrial life, every big corporation should be held responsible by, and be accountable to, some sovereign strong enough to control its conduct." - Theodore Roosevelt
- "It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. ...And as a result the average man once more confronts the problem that faced the Minute Man...." - Franklin Roosevelt
- "A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people's property, other people's money, other people's labor -- other people's lives. For too many of us life was no longer free; liberty no longer real; men could no longer follow the pursuit of happiness." - Franklin Roosevelt
- "These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power. In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for." - Franklin Roosevelt
- "Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce." - James A. Garfield, assassinated by the elite hired goons weeks after this quote.
- "Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws." - Amschel Mayer Rothschild 1838
- "We shall have 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
- "The drive ... is to create a one world government... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope ...." - Congressman Larry P. McDonald, 1976
- "That's where the Bush family fortune came from: It came from the Third Reich." - John Loftus, widely-respected authority on terrorism and security
Voting
- "The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do." - Joseph Stalin
- "The authority of the Fuhrer has now been wholly established. Votes are no longer taken. The Fuhrer decides." - Goebbels
- "The election is over. We won." (Reporter's voice - "How do you know that?")
- "It's all over, but the counting. And we'll take care of the counting." - Congressman Peter King (R-NY), before the 2004 election (watch the video; if you can't hear it, watch this version) Israeli Influence on the U.S.
- "Israel controls the United States Senate." - Sen. William Fu I bright
- "I want to tell you something very clear, don't worry about American pressure on Israel, [Israel] controls] America, and the Americans know it." - Ariel Sharon to Shimon Peres, October 3rd, 2001, as reported on Kol Yisrael radio.
- "To wage war by way of deception" - Official Motto of Israel's Mossad secret service
Liberty and Injustice
- "Charity is no substitute for justice withheld." - Saint Augustine
- "Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of government power, not the increase of it." - Wood row Wilson
- "Those who wish to be ignorant and free, believe in something that never was and never shall be." - Thomas Jefferson
- "Those who are willing to trade freedom for security deserve neither freedom nor security." - Benjamin Franklin
- "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent" - Thomas Jefferson
- "Powerlessness and silence go together. We...should use our privileged positions not as a shelter from the world's reality, but as a platform from which to speak. A voice is a gift. It should be cherished and used." - Margaret Atwood
- 'The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor." - Mark Twain
- "When the forms of an old culture are dying, the new culture is created by a few people who are not afraid to be insecure." - Rudolf Bahro
- "A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it." - G.K. Chesterton
- "It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error." - United States Supreme Court decision in American Communications Association v. Douds
- "Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." - George Washington
- "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." - Benjamin Franklin
- "Dissent is the Highest Form of Patriotism." - Thomas Jefferson
- "To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men." - Abraham Lincoln
- "What country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that its people preserve the spirit of resistance." - Thomas Jefferson
- "All that is necessary for the forces of evil to prevail in the world is for enough good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke, British statesman
- "Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it." - Will Durant
- "Those who give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Ben Franklin
- "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
- "History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
- "A Republic, if you can keep it." - Benjamin Franklin, as he was leaving the Constitutional Convention, in response to the question "Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?"
- "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." - Thomas Jefferson
- "At this moment in history, we are called to act as if we truly believe that. . . liberty and justice for all is a desirable thing" - Starhawk
- "Activism is the rent we pay for living on the planet" - Alice Walker
- "In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action." - Dag Hammarskjold, former secretary-general of the United Nations.
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