Money/economics conspiracy theory quotes
The aim here is to try and help the reader understand the power of money and economics in modern history and politics.
Money runs a lot of things. Understand credit, understand the advantages of paper money, understand the role of money in realpolitik. These things must be learned about if you wish to understand your history, and modern politics. It's not for a joke that you can study history, politics and economics as a combined subject. Though I think economics should almost come first.
Woe to you who add house to house
and join field to field
till no space is left
and you live alone in the land.Isaiah 5.8
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1787 (1735-1826) | President
2nd President of the US
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America rise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
From a letter to Thomas Jefferson (who would succeed him as president).
1795 (1751-1836) | President
Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and of morals engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
First para: Political Observations, Apr. 20, 1795 in: Letters and Other Writings of James Madison, vol. 4, p. 491 (1865)
Second para: From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 13 May 1798
Third para: Madison Debates, July 11, 1787
1807 (1743-1826) | President
I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
I hope we shall take warning from the example {of England} and crush in it's birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws our country.
I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government; I mean an additional article taking from the Federal Government the power of borrowing.
...But this, the only resource which the government could command with certainty, the States have unfortunately fooled away, nay corruptly alienated to swindlers and shavers, under the cover of private banks. Say, too, as an additional evil, that the disposal funds of individuals, to this great amount, have thus been withdrawn from improvement and useful enterprise, and employed in the useless, usurious and demoralizing practices of bank directors and their accomplices... The States should be applied to, to transfer the right of issuing circulating paper to Congress exclusively, in perpetuum, if possible... Bank paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs.
Letter to John Taylor (28 May 1816)
letter to George Logan, Nov. 12th, 1816
Letter to John Taylor of Caroline (26 Nov 1798)
Letter to John Wayles Eppes (24 June 1813)
1852 (1809-1898) | Prime Minister
Prime Minister of England
From the time I took office as Chancellor of the Exchequer I began to learn that the State held, in the face of the Bank and the City, an essentially false position as to finance. The Government was not to be the substantive power, but was to leave the Money Power supreme and unquestioned.
1881 (1831-1881) | President
Assassinated on July 2nd 1881, died September 19th. One of fourteen masons who were presidents.
By the experience of commercial nations in all ages it has been found that gold and silver afford the only safe foundation for a monetary system. Confusion has recently been created by variations in the relative value of the two metals, but I confidently believe that arrangements can be made between the leading commercial nations which will secure the general use of both metals. Congress should provide that the compulsory coinage of silver now required by law may not disturb our monetary system by driving either metal out of circulation. If possible, such an adjustment should be made that the purchasing power of every coined dollar will be exactly equal to its debt-paying power in all the markets of the world.
The chief duty of the National Government in connection with the currency of the country is to coin money and declare its value. Grave doubts have been entertained whether Congress is authorized by the Constitution to make any form of paper money legal tender. The present issue of United States notes has been sustained by the necessities of war; but such paper should depend for its value and currency upon its convenience in use and its prompt redemption in coin at the will of the holder, and not upon its compulsory circulation. These notes are not money, but promises to pay money. If the holders demand it, the promise should be kept.
Inaugural address March 4th, 1881
He did not apparently say this: 'Whosoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce... And when you realise that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.'
1892 (1833-1912) | Brevet Brigadier General
After the war he entered politics. In 1867, he was appointed a federal assessor of internal revenue. Later joined Greenback Party.
The sovereign right to regulate commerce among our magnificent union of States, and to control the instruments of commerce, the right to issue the currency and to determine the money supply for sixty-three billion people and their posterity, have been leased to associated speculators. The brightest lights of the legal profession have been lured away from their honorable relation to the people in the administration of justice, and through evolution in crime the corporation has taken the place of the pirate; and finally a bold and aggressive plutocracy has usurped the government and is using it as a policeman to enforce it's insolent decrees.
1893 | National Banker's Association
Senator Robert Owen first brought this to light while testifying before Congressional Committee, he had received this circular in his role as organiser and then President of the First National Bank of Muskogee.
You will at once retire one-third of your circulation (your paper money) and call in one-half of your loans. Be careful to make a monetary stringency among your patrons, especially among influential businessmen.
If banks were deliberately creating artificial crashes in 1893...
1913 (1856-1924) | President
President 1913-21. The influence of foreign policy advisor and confidant "Colonel" Edward M. House is interesting to follow.
I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country.
A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world. No longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.
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 somebody, are afraid of something. They know there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
1st para under investigation for source maybe spurious disinfo/invention.
2nd and 3rd paras from The New Freedom: A Call for the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People (New York and Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1913)
1913 (1856-1947) | Bank President | Senator | Owen-Glass Federal Reserve Act
Organiser and President for 10 years of First National Muskogee Bank. As Chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency, he was a key player (to his deep later regret) in the Owen-Glass Federal Reserve Act of 1913.
It would appear that there could be no subject of more supreme importance to the people of the United States than an understanding of money and its powers. It is remarkable, and a fact of surpassing importance, that the provision of the Constitution of the United States authorizing Congress exclusively to coin money and regulate the value thereof has been overlooked by American statesmen. Their failure to perceive the deep significance of this language of the Constitution has resulted in the indefensible expansion and contraction of money by private persons, bringing on monetary depressions periodically.
This quote must have been given long after he signed the Federal Reserve Act, since it did exactly what he here forbids - gave the right to print money to private persons. Nonetheless, I place it here as a helpful commentary on it by one of the signatories.
1917 (1925-2002) | Russia expert
Yes, sure this guy was written off as a nut, I know that, and so he shouldn't be here. Read him and learn he is sane. He is no joker, and praise God, you can find almost all his works published by his fans on the internet. More info.
Revolution and international finance are not at all inconsistent if the result of revolution is to establish more centralized authority.
I guess he was trying to help some strange things make sense to the average punter. Like Trotsky's arrest by the British authorities in Nova Scotia 1917, and subsequent release at the request of American ones. And why in New York he had been the guest of super capitalist John D. Rockefeller Jr., who obtained for him an U.S. passport. When he set off for Russia on the SS Christiana, he brought with him arms, 277 revolutionaries, and $20 million, supplied by the Wall Street banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb &Co... Much more could be said, but check out the Warburg (bank) and Lenin/Rothschild connection etc
Consider the image below as a demonstration of public knowledge (now lost), published by Robert Minor in St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1911). It portrays a bearded, beaming Karl Marx standing in Wall Street with Socialism tucked under his arm and accepting the congratulations of financial luminaries J.P. Morgan, Morgan partner George W. Perkins, a smug John D. Rockefeller, John D. Ryan of National City Bank, and Teddy Roosevelt ? prominently identified by his famous teeth ? in the background. Wall Street is decorated by Red flags. The cheering crowd and the airborne hats suggest that Karl Marx must have been a fairly popular sort of fellow in the New York financial district. Kind of interesting, especially to me as a former student of politics and history.
It is a relatively high res image, please right click and save to download, or open in new window. I will try and get a better image of this, cos in original it had "DEE-LIGHTED" at head.

1917 (1872-1947) | U.S. Congressman
In March, 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, shipbuilding, and powder interests, and their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press of the United States. These 12 men worked the problem out by selecting 179 newspapers, and then began, by an elimination process to retain only those necessary for the purpose of controlling the general policy of the daily press throughout the country. They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers. The 25 papers were agreed upon; emissaries were sent to purchase the policy, national and international, of these papers; an agreement was reached; the policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by the month; an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial policies, and other things of national and international nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers... This policy also included the suppression of everything in opposition to the wishes of the interests served.
The Congressional Record, February 9, 1917, Vol. 54, pp. 2947-48.
1920 (1883-1946) | British Economist
Father of Keynesian Economics.
By this means government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.
The Economic Consequences of Peace, 1920.
1924 (1863-1943) | Chancellor of the Exchequer
Also chairman of Midland Bank Ltd 1919-1943.
I am afraid that the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can and do 'create' money, and they who control the credit of a nation direct the policy of the government and hold in the hollow of their hands, the destiny of the people.
1927 (1868-1936) | New York City Mayor
These international bankers and Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests control the majority of the newspapers and magazines in this country. They use the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of office public officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government....
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 its slimy length over City, State, and nation... It seizes in its 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 generalisations, 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 catspaws of party leaders, use the leading men of private organisations, and resort to every device to place in nomination for high public office only such candidates as will be amenable to the dictates of corrupt big business...
This is an spelling out Benjamin Franklin's statement: "Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on whats for dinner." And he also added, "In a republic...the sheep would have a gun."
1932 (1876-1936) | Chairman of the House Banking Committee
Shortly after his lashing out against the Federal Reserve in the House of Representatives, he sustained food poisoning and almost died.
The depression was not accidental. It was a carefully contrived occurence... The international bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair here so that they might emerge as the rulers of us all.
The Federal Reserve banks are one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever seen. There is not a man within the sound of my voice who does not know that this nation is run by the International bankers.
Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are the United States government?s institutions.They are not government institutions. They are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign swindlers.
From his nine page statement about the Federal Reserve in the Congressional Record on June 10, 1932.
1933 (1881-1940) | Major General
2 times receiver of congressional medal of honour. Check his short book on war.
War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.
I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.
I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.
There isn't a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its "finger men" to point out enemies, its "muscle men" to destroy enemies, its "brain men" to plan war preparations, and a "Big Boss" Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism.
It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.
I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.
During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.
1933 (1882-1945) | President
Check an interesting book on this man by his son in law, Colonel Curtis B Dall: "FDR My Exploited Father-In-Law".
The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson - and I am not wholly excepting the Administration of W.W.
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
Letter to Colonel House Nov 23rd, 1933. Andrew Jackson was president from 1829-1837. W.W. is Woodrow Wilson, president 1913-1921. Both quoted earlier in clear agreement.
1934 (1879-1975) | Secretary of the British Treasury
When a bank lends, it creates money out of nothing.
When a bank lends, it creates credit. Against the advance which it enters amongst its assets, there is a deposit entered in its liabilities. But other lenders have not the mystical power of creating the means of payment out of nothing. What they lend must be money that they have acquired through their economic activities.
1st para: from 'Trade Depression and the Way Out', 1934.
2nd para: from the 'Art of Central Banking', 1931 (2nd ed 1933).
1935 (1863-1947) | Founder of Ford Motors
It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
Attributed to Henry Ford by Charles Binderup (March 19, 1937), Congressional Record—House vol. 81, p. 2528. The quote is preceded by "It was Henry Ford who said, in substance, this," indicating that it was a paraphrase rather than an actual quote. Ford wrote at length in My Life and Work (1923) against the dominance of finance over industry, including a remark in Chapter XII, quoted above, which is very similar to the attributed statement.
1942 (1888-1959) | a founder of CFR
Later Secretary of State. While Chairman of the Federal Council of Churches Commission issued the report containing this quote.
a world government, strong immediate limitation on national sovreignty, international control of all armies and navies, a universal system of money...
1945 (1895-1983) | Head Mechincal Engineer
Head Mechanical Engineer of the U.S.A. Board of Economic Warfare
As a student of patents I asked for and received all the intercept information relating to strategic patents held by both our enemies and our own big corporations, and I found the same money was often operative on both sides in World War II.
Source: Critical Path, 1981, St Martin's Press NY. I altered the quote date since that is the period it refers to and to aid the student of history in finding relevant info to his quest.
1950 (1896-1969) | Banker
Son of Paul Warburg of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.; Council On Foreign Relations member; foreign agent for the Rothschild dynasty.
We shall have world government whether or not you like it - by conquest or consent.
Given while testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on February 17th.
1950 | Head of Economic Warfare | Justice Department
We cannot allow the lack of social responsibility characteristic of the international behavior of private corporations during the last quarter century to become a pattern for government.
Prewar movies had pictured the goose stepping Nazis as the absolute masters of Germany. Our...questioning of Alfred Krupp and his works managers erased that impression. Adolf Hitler and his Party had never been allowed quite to forget that they had depended on the industrialists to put them in office, and that in future they could go further with the industrialists' help than without it.
We had not been stopped in Germany by German business... by American business. The forces that stopped us had operated from the United States but had not operated in the open. We were not stopped by a law of Congress, by an Executive Order of the President, or even by a change of policy approved by the President...in short, whatever it was that had stopped us was not `the government.' But it clearly had command of channels through which the government normally operates
The relative powerlessness of governments in the growing economic power is of course not new....ational governments have stood on the sidelines while bigger operators arranged the world?s affairs.
Source: All Honourable Men, 1950.
1961 (1890-1969) | Supreme Commander | President
Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force
Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence - economic, political, even spiritual - is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial 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. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
1966 (1926- ) | Economist | Chairman of Federal Reserve
Chairman of Federal Reserve 1987 to 2006.
The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves. This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists' tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.
Gold and Economic Freedom, 1966.
1970 (1896-1991) | vice-Presidential candidate & son-in-law to FDR
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.
My Exploited Father-in-law Torrance, California: Legion for the Survival of Freedom, Incorpora. ISBN 0-939484-03-X.
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