Famous Quotes

Includes famous quotes, US president quotes and a few more whose authenticity I still haven't verified

-------------FAMOUS QUOTES (including quotes by anon that should be famous)-------------

"No one is paid to tell the truth"
- Anonymous

"Never trust a government that doesn't trust its own people."
- Andrei Sakharov

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum...."
- Noam Chomsky

"News is what somebody does not want you to print. All the rest is advertising."
...
"Journalism is publicizing what someone doesn't want to be public. All else is propaganda"
- Anonymous

"The best way to control opposition is to lead it ourselves."
- Vladimir Ulyanov

"Useless laws weaken the necessary laws."
- Charles de Montesquieu

"Depression is a natural reaction to slavery"
- Anonymous

"[The purpose of law is to generate] business for itself."
- Charles Dickens

"It is the nature of capitalism for the wealthy capitalist class to subvert democracy."
- Anonymous

"Banks don't want government restrictions but will run to government for public money to cover losses. Debt is socialised, profit is privatised."
...
"Debt is socialised, profit is privatised."
- Anonymous

"It is well enough that 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."
- Henry Ford (quoting Andrew Jackson)

"The unforgivable sin of Hitler's Germany was to develop a new economic system by which the international bankers were deprived of their profits."
- Winston Churchill

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
- George W. Bush


"All the world suffers from the usury of the Jews, their monopolies and deceit. They have brought many unfortunate people into a state of poverty, especially the farmers, working class people and the very poor.
Then as now Jews have to be reminded intermittently anew that they were enjoying rights in any country since they left Palestine and the Arabian desert, and subsequently their ethical and moral doctrines as well as their deeds rightly deserve to be exposed to criticism in whatever country they happen to live."
- POPE CLEMENT VIII


"Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say."
- Edward Snowden

"The media is like a religion: you either respect its unquestionable truth or you are labeled a crazy conspiracy theorist."
- Unknown

"Making war for peace is like fucking for virginity."
- George Carlin

"A person is smart, the people are stupid."
- Unknown

"Being offended isn't an argument. It is a confession that you are ruled by emotion. It is a confession that you do not know how to think"
- Stefan Molyneux

"Saying you're offended means you can't control your emotions so you want everyone else to control them for you"
- Anonymous

"Elections are not democracy. How come you can only give your opinion once every few years and still call it a democracy?
We need random draw from the population, so everybody can become in charge, and then it would be nearly impossible to corrupt every selected person at once.
Elections are anti-democratic"
...
"Elections are not democracy. How come you can only give your opinion once every few years and still call it a democracy?"
...
"Elections are anti-democratic"
- Anonymous

"Quick check to tell if a system is corrupt: Ask yourself, is there any reason why it wouldn't be? Any regulation, public accountability, general transparency? If not, then it probably is"
- Anonymous

"Once government has all the power, the psychopaths flock to control and abuse people."
- Anonymous

"How to sound smart nowdays:
1. obey the tv man
2. shame those who refuse"
- Anonymous

" 'I'm proud to be black' said the black man
'I'm proud to be asian' said the asian man
'I'm proud to be white' said the racist"
- Anonymous

"Why do people obey tyrants? Do they lack the ability to perspectivize?
Drop the costume, drop the rituals, and all you have is a man who owns another man.
A slave and a master.
There can be no empires without slaves. There can be no wars if no one is willing to be a soldier.
They own you only because you accept and allow it.
Fear is the mechanism of control, fear of losing your job, fear of losing your sustenance, fear of losing your life.
Do not let them scare you into submission."
...
"Why do people obey? Do they lack the ability to perspectivize?
Drop the costumes, drop the rituals, and all you have is a man who owns another man.
A slave and a master."
- Unknown

"Slavery is being told what to do and punished if you don't"
- Unknown

"There are no wars without soldiers. There is no slavery without slaves."
- Unknown

"If you don't vote for one of the people who are hated by 60% of the population you are throwing your vote away!"
- Unknown

"I must...
...defend my religion
...defend my country
...defend my family"
- said by <someone>, right before <something terrible>

"Change for the sake of change is unwise"
- Anonymous

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
- Charles Goodhart

"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you're not allowed to criticize."
- Voltaire

"You can't reason people out of something they didn't reason themselves into."
- Anonymous

"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled."
- Mark Twain

"If you don't believe in freedom of speech for those you despise, you do not believe in it at all"
- Noam Chomsky

Bible excerpt:
"As you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for peace.  If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labor.  But if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town. When the LORD your God hands it over to you, kill every man in the town.  But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder. You may enjoy the spoils of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you.  But these instructions apply only to distant towns, not to the towns of nations nearby.  "As for the towns of the nations the LORD your God is giving you as a special possession, destroy every living thing in them.  You must completely destroy the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, just as the LORD your God has commanded you.  This will keep the people of the land from teaching you their detestable customs in the worship of their gods, which would cause you to sin deeply against the LORD your God."

“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”
- Buddha

“All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.”
- George Bernard Shaw

"When you tear out a man's tongue, you haven't proved him a liar. You've only told the world you fear what he might say."
- Anonymous

"The true test of free speech isn't the protection of the rights of those we agree with, but of those we don't"
- Anonymous

"Free speech isn't there to protect the opinions you agree with, it's there to protect the ones you don't agree with"
- Unknown

"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."
- Evelyn Beatrice Hall

"Censorship is what people who know they're wrong want to do. If you sincerely disagree with someone, you'll let them speak so you can make your counterpoints and win. If you have no counterpoints though and have an agenda to protect, you want to censor the opposition before they can embarrass you."
- Anonymous

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
- Buckminster Fuller

"All progress stems from conflict. All conflict stems from differences. Therefore, homogeneity is the death of progress"
...
"Homogeneity is the death of progress"
- Unknown

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-------------US PRESIDENT QUOTES (divided into pills depending on time available and subject of discussion e.g. banks, secret societies, general conspiracy)-------------

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"... Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong - essentially wrong - a seed of evil, which can never produce any good. It may perish in the ground - it may never rise to bear fruit; but whatever fruit it does bear must be rank poison; it can never prove a blessing but by its barrenness."
...
"The existence of such an order is a foul blot upon the morals of a community. The strength, the glory, the happiness of a nation are all centred in the purity of its morals; and institutions founded upon imposture, are the worst of all corruptions, for they poison the public morals at their fountains, and by multiplying the accomplices in guilt, arm them with the confidence of virtue"
- John Quincy Adams

"The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings."
...
"The high office of President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American’s freedom, and before I leave office I must inform the citizen of his plight."
...
"There exists in this country a plot to enslave every man, woman and child. Before I leave this high and noble office, I intend to expose this plot."
...
"... we are opposed around the world, by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy, that relies primarily [...] on infiltration, [...] subversion, [...] {and} intimidation [...]
It is a system which has conscripted, vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine, that combines, military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific, and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, [...] {and} its dissenters are silenced"
- John F. Kennedy

"If the people understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning."
- Andrew Jackson

"... banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies [...] the principle of [credit aka funding aka usury aka any loan with interest], is but swindling futurity on a large scale."
- Thomas Jefferson

"[The money lenders] work more effectively against us, than the enemy's armies. They are a hundred times more dangerous to our liberties and the great cause we are engaged in... It is much to be lamented that each state, long ago, has not hunted them down as pest to society and the greatest enemies we have to the happiness of America."
- George Washington

"Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce"
- James A. Garfield
and later
- Paul Warburg (drafter of the Federal Reserve Act)

"The money power preys upon the nation in times of peace and conspires against it in times of adversity. [...] I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me, and causes me to tremble for the safety of our country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption will follow, [...] until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the republic is destroyed."
...
"The government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the tax payers will be saved immense sums of interest."
- Abraham Lincoln

"Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation and I care not who makes its laws."
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild

In 1913, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act, giving the privately owned international banking cartel the power to create the United States money. Later, Woodrow Wilson stated:
"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 [...] men
- Woodrow Wilson

“Now it’s just an oligarchy, with unlimited political bribery being the essence of getting the nominations for president or to elect the president. And the same thing applies to governors, and U.S. senators and congress members.”
- Jimmy Carter

"When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty"
"When injustice becomes the law, resistance becomes duty"
- Thomas Jefferson

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"... banking establishments are more dangerous than [...] armies"
- Thomas Jefferson

"If the people understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning."
- Andrew Jackson

"The inability of the colonists to get power to issue their own money permanently out of the hands of George III and the international bankers was the prime reason for the Revolutionary War."
- Benjamin Franklin

"There exists in this country a plot to enslave every man, woman and child. Before I leave this high and noble office, I intend to expose this plot."
- John F. Kennedy

"... we are opposed around the world, by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy, that relies primarily [...] on infiltration, [...] subversion, [...] {and} intimidation [...]
It is a system which has conscripted, vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine, that combines, military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific, and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, [...] {and} its dissenters are silenced"
- John F. Kennedy

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"... Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong - essentially wrong - a seed of evil, which can never produce any good. It may perish in the ground - it may never rise to bear fruit; but whatever fruit it does bear must be rank poison; it can never prove a blessing but by its barrenness."
...
"The existence of such an order is a foul blot upon the morals of a community. The strength, the glory, the happiness of a nation are all centred in the purity of its morals; and institutions founded upon imposture, are the worst of all corruptions, for they poison the public morals at their fountains, and by multiplying the accomplices in guilt, arm them with the confidence of virtue"
- John Quincy Adams

"The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings."
...
"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."
...
"The high office of President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American’s freedom, and before I leave office I must inform the citizen of his plight."
...
"There exists in this country a plot to enslave every man, woman and child. Before I leave this high and noble office, I intend to expose this plot."
...
"... we are opposed around the world, by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy, that relies primarily [...] on infiltration, [...] subversion, [...] {and} intimidation [...]
It is a system which has conscripted, vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine, that combines, military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific, and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, [...] {and} its dissenters are silenced"
- John F. Kennedy

"If the people understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning."
- Andrew Jackson

"... banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies [...] the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."
- Thomas Jefferson

"Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce"
- James A. Garfield & Paul Warburg (drafter of the Federal Reserve Act)

"The money power preys upon the nation in times of peace and conspires against it in times of adversity. [...] I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me, and causes me to tremble for the safety of our country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people, until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the republic is destroyed."
...
"The government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the tax payers will be saved immense sums of interest."
- Abraham Lincoln

"Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation and I care not who makes its laws."
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild

In 1913, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act, giving the privately owned international banking cartel the power to create the United States money. Later, Woodrow Wilson stated:
"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
- Woodrow Wilson

“Now it’s just an oligarchy, with unlimited political bribery being the essence of getting the nominations for president or to elect the president. And the same thing applies to governors, and U.S. senators and congress members.”
- Jimmy Carter

"The real truth of the matter is, and you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers [owns] the government of the U.S."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"A fiat monetary system allows power and influence to fall into the hands of those who control the creation of new money [...]. The insidious and eventual cost falls on unidentified victims who are usually oblivious to the cause of their plight. This system of legalized plunder [...] allows one group to benefit at the expense of another. An actual transfer of wealth goes from the poor and the middle class to those in privileged financial positions."
- Ron Paul, "Paper Money and Tyranny"

"Fiat money is the cause of inflation, and the amount which people lose in purchasing power is exactly the amount which was taken from them and transferred to their governments by this process."
- G. Edward Griffin, "The Creature from Jekyll Island"

"The inability of the colonists to get power to issue their own money permanently out of the hands of George III and the international bankers was the prime reason for the Revolutionary War."
- Benjamin Franklin

"When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty"
- Thomas Jefferson

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-------------NEW UNVERIFIED QUOTES-------------

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"If the people understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning."
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"You are a den of vipers. I intend to rout you out, and by the Eternal God I will rout you out." (addressing the bankers)
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"The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me."
...
"I killed the bank." (last words)
- Andrew Jackson


"If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
- James Madison, Jr.

"[The] conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. [...] We must not fail to comprehend its grave implications."
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"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence [...] by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower



"A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many, and various, and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks."
- John C. Calhoun, 7th Vice President of the US

"The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government, which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation . . . The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both parties . . . [and] 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. It operates under cover of a self-created screen [and] seizes our executive officers, legislative bodies, schools, courts, newspapers and every agency created for the public protection."
- John F. Hylan, Mayor of New York City from 1918-1925

"Most terrorists are false flag terrorists, or are created by our own security services. In the United States, every single terrorist incident we have had has been a false flag, or has been an informant pushed on by the FBI. In fact, we now have citizens taking out restraining orders against FBI informants that are trying to incite terrorism. We’ve become a lunatic asylum."
- David Steele, second-highest ranking civilian in the U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence and former CIA clandestine services officer

"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government, owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people."
...
"Political parties exist to secure responsible government and to execute the will of the people.
From these great tasks both of the old parties have turned aside. Instead of instruments to promote the general welfare, they have become the tools of corrupt interests which use them impartially to serve their selfish purposes. 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 dissolve 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