Frederic Morton quotes
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“Though they control scores of industrial, commercial, mining and tourist corporations, not one bears the name Rothschild. Being private partnerships, the family houses never need to, and never do, publish a single public balance sheet, or any other report of their financial condition.”
-- Frederic MortonSource : Frederic Morton (2014). “The Rothschilds: A Family Portrait”, p.18, Diversion Books
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“For the last one hundred and fifty years, the history of the House of Rothschild has been to an amazing degree the backstage history of Western Europe...Because of their success in making loans not to individuals but to nations, they reaped huge profits...Someone once said that the wealth of Rothschild consists of the bankruptcy of nations.”
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“The Rothschilds have conquered the world more thoroughly, more cunningly, and much more lastingly than all the Caesars before...”
-- Frederic MortonSource : Frederic Morton (2014). “The Rothschilds: A Family Portrait”, p.20, Diversion Books
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“A grand old odalisque should never deign to turn housewife.”
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“Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.”
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“I think when I bought a house, that's when I thought I felt like that's a grown up thing to do.”
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Source : "Alex Steffen on Carbon-Zero Cities". Interview with Theresa Riley, billmoyers.com. March 19, 2013.
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“To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.”
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