Famous Quotations

“I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.”

Pablo Picasso

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Plato

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

~ Ben Franklin

“Kyoto represents the first component of an authentic global governance”

French President Jacques Chirac at the Hague in November of 2000

“A general characteristic of Mr. Gore’s approach is to assiduously ignore the fact that the earth and its climate are dynamic; they are always changing even without any external forcing.

To treat all change as something to fear is bad enough; to do so in order to exploit that fear is much worse.”

- Richard Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science

at MIT, op-ed in the June 26 , 2006 Wall Street Journal.

“Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.”

Henry Louis Mencken

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“I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”

James Madison

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

James Madison

A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.

James Madison

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

James Madison

“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.”

(Patrick Henry)

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

James Madison

“Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”

-Barry Goldwater

“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 skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers 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.”

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

“Truth is Treason In an Empire of Lies”

Ron Paul in the preface to his book The Revolution: A Manifesto

“You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.”

-Charles Austin Beard

“In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.”

– Alan Greenspan

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana (1863-1952)

“The case for government by elites is irrefutable.”

Senator William Fulbright, Former chairman of the US Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, stated at a 1963 symposium entitled:
The Elite and the Electorate – Is Government by the People Possible?

Those who would publish misinformation in support of a cause about which I am passionate do more harm than good.

I wish they would all defect to the other side!

Dick Reese – 2004

“The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.”

– Samuel Adams

“The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieve/review by the authorities.”

– Zbigniew Brzezinski, CFR member, founding member of the Trilateral

Commission, National Security Advisor to five US presidents

“The dirty little secret is that both Houses of Congress are irrelevant. America’s domestic policy is now being run by Allen Greenspan and the Federal Reserve. America’s foreign policy is now being run by the International Monetary Fund. When the President decides to go to war, he no longer needs a declaration of war from congress.”

Robert Reich (Clinton’s cabinet member & advisor)
Jan. 7, 1999 – USA Today

“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last”

–  Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

“If you owe your banker $1,000, you don’t sleep well,” says the old American adage. “But when you owe him a million dollars, it’s the banker who cannot sleep.”

Author Unknown

“We shall have world government whether or not you like it –by conquest or consent.”

- James Warburg , Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
{1967 testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee}
– [CFR created United Nations]

“Ultimately, our objective is to welcome the Soviet Union back into the world order. Perhaps the world order of the future will truly be a family of nations.”

President George Bush Texas A&M University 1989

“Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective – a New World Order – can emerge… We are now in sight of a United Nations that performs as envisioned by its founders.”

- George Bush (September, 1990)

Now, look, part of the reason we went into Iraq was — the main reason we went into Iraq at the time was we thought he had weapons of mass destruction. It turns out he didn’t, but he had the capacity to make weapons of mass destruction.

George W. Bush – August, 21 2006
White House Conference Center Briefing Room

“You know, not having weapons of mass destruction was a significant disappointment.”

George W. Bush
at his last White House press conference January 12, 2009

If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier… just so long as I’m the dictator.

George W. Bush at the Sam Rayburn House on Capitol Hill
December 8, 2000

“We must replace balance of power politics with world order politics.”

Jimmy Carter During the 1976 Presidential campaign

“(The UN was ratified by the Senate because the State Department assured that) it [UN] in no sense constituted a form of World Government and that neither the Senate nor the American people need be concerned that the United Nations or any of its agencies would interfere with the sovereignty of the United States or with the domestic affairs of the American People.”

- Senator Barry Goldwater, “Why Not Victory” (1962)

“(The alternative approach to world government) relies on a grave crisis or war to bring about a sudden transformation in national attitudes sufficient for the purpose. According to this version, the order we examine may be brought into existence as a result of a series of sudden, nasty, and traumatic shocks.”

- CFR member Lincoln P. Bloomfield,

“A World Effectively Controlled by the United Nations”

“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.”

- Brock Adams, Director UN Health Organization

“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

“The world can therefore seize the opportunity [Persian Gulf crisis] to fulfill the long-held promise of a New World Order where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind.”

George Herbert Walker Bush

“When we are successful, and we will be, we have a real chance at this New World Order, an order in which a credible United Nations can use its peacekeeping role to fulfill the promise and vision of the United Nations’ founders.”

George Herbert Walker Bush

“What is at stake is more than one small country, it is a big idea – a New World Order, where diverse nations are drawn together in a common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind; peace and security, freedom, and the rule of law. Such is a world worthy of our struggle, and worthy of our children’s future.”

George Bush - January 29, 1991 State of the Union Address

“The Bush administration would like to make the United Nations a cornerstone of its plans to construct a New World Order.”

The September 17, 1990 issue of Time magazine

Nobody is interested in solutions if they don’t think there’s a problem. Given that starting point, I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous (global warming) is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are…

former Vice President Al Gore
(now, chairman and co-founder of Generation Investment Management–a London-based business that sells carbon credits)

An interview with accidental movie star Al Gore

By David Roberts

09 May 2006 in Al Revere

“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 autodetermination practiced in past centuries.”

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

“The United Nations, he told an audience at Harvard University, ‘has not been able–nor can it be able–to shape a new world order which events so compellingly demand.’ … The new world order that will answer economic, military, and political problems, he said, ‘urgently requires, I believe, that the United States take the leadership among all free peoples to make the underlying concepts and aspirations of national sovereignty truly meaningful through the federal approach.”

Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York,
in an article entitled “Rockefeller Bids Free Lands Unite:
Calls at Harvard for Drive to Build New World Order”
– The New York Times (February 1962)

“We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.”

David Rockefeller (2000)

“Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government.”

- Dr. Henry Kissinger, Bilderberger Conference, Evians, France, 1991.

“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.”

- Strobe Talbot, Clinton’s Deputy Secretary of State
as quoted in Time, July 20th, l992.

“There is no such thing, at this date of the world’s history, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dare’s to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar thing, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job.”
“If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell the country for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent press. We are the tools and vassals of the rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.”

– John Swinton, the former Chief of Staff at the NEW YORK TIMES,
speaking at the New York Press Club in 1953.

“The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.”

- Zbigniew Brzezinski, CFR member,
founding member of the Trilateral Commission,
and National Security Advisor to five presidents.

I know you can fight. . . , but it’s our wits that make us men.

Malcom Wallace to William Wallace ( in the film Braveheart))

“The warning of Theodore Roosevelt has much timeliness today, for the real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls it’s slimey length over city, state and nation…. It seizes in it’s long and powerful tentacles our executive officers, our legislative bodies, our schools, our courts, our newspapers, and every agency created for the public protection.”

“To depart from mere generalizations, let me say that at the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller Standard-Oil interest and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as the international bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes.”

“They practically control both parties, write political platforms, make cats paws of party leaders, use the leading men of private organizations, and resort to every device to place in nomination to high public office, only such candidates as will be amenable to the dictates of corrupt big business.”

“These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard-Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and magazines in this country.”

John Hylan, Mayor of New York
New York Times – March 26, 1922

“For a long time I felt that F.D.R. had developed many thoughts and ideas that were his own to benefit this country, the United States. But he didn’t. Most of his thoughts were carefully manufactured for him in advance by The Council On Foreign Relations – One World Money Group.”

“The United Nations 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 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.”

Curtis Dall – (FDR’s son in-law -
From his book; FDR: My Exploited Father In-Law

Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like anew Pearl Harbor.

Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategy,
Forces and Resources for a New Century, p 51

“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.”
“…… they will rule the future.”

Barry Goldwater – U.S. Senator – 1964

“The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and politics…of the Right and…Left, is a foolish idea…the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can ‘throw the rascals out’ without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy…It should be possible, to replace one party with the other party which will pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policy.”

‘Tragedy And Hope: A History Of The World In Our Time’, By; the late Prof. Carroll Quigley of Georgetown Univ. and a long-time member of the Council on Foreign Relations, referring to the elite’s control and manipulation of the political parties and the political process: Macmillan, 1966

“The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.”

“Theodore Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star”, 149
May 7, 1918

“This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.”

Theodore Roosevelt in Memphis, TN, October 25, 1905

“There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility.”

Theodore Roosevelt in Abilene, KS, May 2, 1903

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

- A letter written by FDR to Colonel House, November 21st, l933

“I never give them hell.  I just tell them the truth and they think it is hell!”

— Harry Truman

“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”

-Thomas Jefferson, third US president

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.”

- Dwight David Eisenhower,
“The Chance for Peace,” speech given
to the American Society of
Newspaper Editors, Apr. 16, 1953.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

John F. Kennedy — speech, 13 March 1962

“Fifty men have run America, and that’s a high figure.”

Joseph Kennedy, father of JFK,
in the July 26th, l936 issue of The New York Times.

Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.

— Patrick Henry

Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.

— Mayer Amschel Rothschild

“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them (around the banks), will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces as public enemies, all who question it’s methods or throw light upon it’s crimes. I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the Bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.. corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money powers of the country will endeavor to prolong it’s reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few, and the Republic is destroyed.

Abraham Lincoln

“The governments alone are responsible for the spread of the superstitious awe with which the common man looks upon every bit of paper upon which the treasury or agencies which it controls have printed the magical words legal tender.”

Ludwig von Mises

“For the first time in human history we have the opportunity to come together around a global covenant to reframe the international architecture and build the truly global society.”

James Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom In his speech at the John F Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, April 18, 2008

The first edition of the King James Bible, Bible, which was edited by Francis Bacon and prepared under Masonic supervision, bears more Mason’s marks than the Cathedral of Strasburg. The same is true respecting the Masonic symbolism found in the first English edition of Josephus’ History of the Jews. [pp 409-410]

Manly P. Hall
From Lectures on Ancient Philosophy
—An Introduction tothe Study and Application of Rational Procedure:

FREEMASONRY is a fraternity within a fraternity—an outer organization concealing an inner brotherhood of the elect. Before it is possible to intelligently discuss the origin of the Craft, it is necessary, therefore, to establish the existence of these two separate yet interdependent orders, the one visible and the other invisible. The visible society is a splendid camaraderie of “free and accepted” men enjoined to devote themselves to ethical, educational, fraternal, patriotic, and humanitarian concerns. The invisible society is a secret and most august fraternity whose members are dedicated to the service of a mysterious arcanum arcanorum. [p. 398]

Manly P. Hall
From Lectures on Ancient Philosophy
—An Introduction tothe Study and Application of Rational Procedure:

“When a mason learns the key to the warrior on the block is the proper application of the dynamo of living power, he has learned the mystery of his craft. The seething energies of Lucifer are in his hands and before he may step upward, he must prove his ability to properly apply energy.”

Manly P. Hall
33°, The Lost Keys of Freemasonry, p. 48

“Satanic Ritual is a blend of Gnostic, Cabbalistic, Hermetic, and Masonic elements, incorporating nomenclature and vibratory words of power from virtually every mythos …. Masonic orders have contained the most influential men in many governments, and virtually every occult order has many Masonic roots.”

Anton Szandor LaVey
The Satanic Rituals —
Companion to the Satanic Bible, pp. 21, 78

“Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government.”

Daniel Webster

“Here’s my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.”

- - – Ronald Reagan

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“The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”

- Ronald Reagan

“The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant: It’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”

- Ronald Reagan

“Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong.”

- Ronald Reagan

“I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress.”

- Ronald Reagan

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“The taxpayer: That’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.”

- Ronald Reagan

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“Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.”

- Ronald Reagan

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“If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.” — Ronald Reagan

“The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program.”

- - Ronald Reagan

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“I’ve laid down the law, though, to everyone from now on about anything that happens: no matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.”

- Ronald Reagan

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“It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession.   I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first”

- Ronald Reagan

“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”

- Ronald Reagan

“Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.”

- Ronald Reagan

“No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.”

- Ronald Reagan

“If you can exist, and stay the course — not a course of blind obstinacy and faulty conception — but one of decency and good sense, you can outlast your enemies with your honor and integrity intact”

Fred Hellerman. (The Weavers) Recounting their struggles with political witch hunts during the 1950s at the 2006 Academy Awards.

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

Adolf Hitler

History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subjected peoples to carry arms have prepared their own fall.

— Adolf Hitler, Edict of 18 March 1939

They lost me the day they said this about global warming/climate change “The science is settled”…..I thought “Wait just a freakin minute here; the science of physics isn’t settled, the science of chemistry isn’t settled, nor is biology, astronomy, etc, etc, (and we’ve been working at those for hundreds of years) yet the infant, wildly complex science of climate change is settled?” I think not, and only an arrogant fool would claim otherwise.

BTW, if you think Climate Change is “bad”, consider this. The climate has always changed…….if we had no climate change it would probably be the start of something extraordinarily bad.

Wes Switzer on a KITCO discussion forum Aug. 2008

I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land of freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime.

Albert Einstein – 1947

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State.

Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels

“An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.”

Plutarch

There is no means of avoiding a final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as the final and total catastrophe of the currency involved.

Ludwig von Mises, 1949

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A person hears only what they understand.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Since March 9, 1933, the United states has been in a state of national emergency. A majority of the people of the United States have their lives under emergency rule. For 40 years (now 75 years) freedoms and governmental procedures, guaranteed by the Constitution have, in varying degrees, been abridged by laws brought forth by states of national emergency.”

Senate Report 93-549 (1973).

“We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn’t. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets, and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.”

Katherine Graham, Washington Post publisher and CFR member.

“The Final Act of the Uruguay Round, marking the conclusion of the most ambitious trade negotiation of our century, will give birth – in Morocco – to the World Trade Organization, the third pillar of the New World Order, along with the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund.”

Part of full-page advertisement by the government
of Morocco in The New York Times (April 1994)

“Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles tonight called for the early creation of an international organization of anti-Axis nations to control the world during the period between the armistice at the end of the present war and the setting up of a new world order on a permanent basis.”

Text of article in The Philadelphia Inquirer (June 1942)

” The American republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.”

Alexis De Tocqueville (1805-1859)

They came first for the Communists…
but I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews…
but I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.

Then they came for the Unionists…
but I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Unionist.

Then they came for the Catholics…
but I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant.

Then they came for me…and by that time…
there was no-one left to speak up for me.

- Rev. Martin Niemoller, commenting on events in Germany 1933-1939

“Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial.”

– Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, 25 March, 2001 quoted in BBC News Online

Max: He’s got to at least *pretend* to work with these people. You must convince him.
Maria: I can’t ask him to be less than he is.

(Uncle Max referring to Captain Von Trapp) The Sound of Music (1965)

Herr Zeller: Perhaps those who would warn you that the Anschluss is coming – and it is coming, Captain – perhaps they would get further with you by setting their words to music.
Captain von Trapp: If the Nazis take over Austria, I have no doubt, Herr Zeller, that you will be the entire trumpet section.
Herr Zeller: You flatter me, Captain.
Captain von Trapp: Oh, how clumsy of me – I meant to accuse you.

The Sound of Music (1965)

“Resolved unanimously, As our opposition to the settled plan of the British administration to enslave America will be strengthened by a union of all ranks of men in this province, we do most earnestly recommend that all former differences about religion or politics, and all private animosities and quarrels of every kind, from henceforth cease and be forever buried in oblivion; and we entreat, we conjure every man by his duty to God, his country, and his posterity, cordially to unite in defense of our common rights and liberties.”

Resolution of the Maryland Deputies, December 12, 1774

“Every child in America entering school at the age of five is insane because he comes to school with certain allegiances toward our founding fathers, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being. It’s up to you, teachers, to make all of these sick children well by creating the international child of the future.”

Chester M. Pierce,
Professor of Education and Psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University. In his keynote address to the Association for Childhood Education International – April 1972

“I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I can not do everything, I will not refuse to do the something I can do. What I can do, I should do. And what I should do, by the grace of GOD, I will do.”

Edward Everett Hale (decendent of Nathan Hale

“Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”

-Winston Churchill