♦ nivek ♦ Posted July 27, 2009 Share Posted July 27, 2009 "The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson. History depicts Andrew Jackson as the last truly honorable and incorruptible American president." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), 32nd US President November 21, 1933 Source: in a letter written to Colonel E. Mandell House http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Franklin.Roosevelt.Quote.76BD "I am afraid that the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can and do create and destroy money. And they who control the credit of a nation direct the policy of governments, and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people." -- Richard McKenna Secretary to the Treasury (1903), President of the Board of Education (1907–08) First Lord of the Admiralty (1908–1911), Home Secretary (1911–1915) and Chancellor of the Exchequer (1915–1916), and Chairman of the Midland Bank (1918) Source: speaking in 1924 http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Richard.McKenna.Quote.B5D3 "...the concentration of capital and the growth of their turnover is radically challenging the significance of the banks. Scattered capitalists are transformed into a single collective capitalist. When carrying the current accounts of a few capitalists, the banks, as it were, transact a purely technical and exclusively auxiliary operation. When, however, these operations grow to enormous dimensions we find that a handful of monopolists control all the operations, both commercial and industrial, of capitalist society. They can, by means of their banking connections." -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin [Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov] (1870 - 1924), First Leader of the Soviet Union http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Vladimir.Lenin.Quote.B718 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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