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"Only when the lion is out of sight can you raise your fist at him."

"The power of imagination is a miracle."
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"This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation."


"The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training."


"When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally."


"Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions."


"The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally."


"There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati."


"In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures."


"When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser's country, since these are of value only in the country of issue."


"Once again the mastermind was Lionel Curtis, and the earlier Round Table Groups and Institutes of International Affairs were used as nuclei for the new network."


"In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so."
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