Controlling Government Quotes:

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

- Ayn Rand

source: Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.320, Penguin

topic: Gun, Government, Historical, Brute Force, Human History

It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

- Robert H. Jackson

source: American Communications Ass'n v. Douds (1950)

topic: Fall, Errors, Government, Justice Truth, Limited Government

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

- Aesop

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Witty, Government, Office, Good Political, Politicians And Politics

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 befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Responsibility, Government, America, State Government, Statesmanship

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: War, Patriotic, Government, Resistance To Change, American Revolution

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

topic: Country, Men, Hands, Duress, Zeitgeist

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

- Louis D. Brandeis

topic: Government, Liberty, Purpose, Justice Truth, Law Courts

Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States.

- Noah Webster

source: Noah Webster (1787). “An Examination Into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution Proposed by the Late Convention Held at Philadelphia: With Answers to the Principal Objections that Have Been Raised Against the System”, p.43

topic: Army, Europe, Law, Handguns, Pretense

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Freedom, Government, Liberty, Liberty And Equality, Liberty Of Speech

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.

- Edward Bernays

source: Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”

topic: Country, Intelligent, Government, Mass Media, Media Control

[We are] 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 the duress of small groups of dominant men.

- Woodrow Wilson

source: Woodrow Wilson (2012). “The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People”, p.136, tredition

topic: Men, Nwo, Free Opinion, Duress, State Government

History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance.

- James Madison

topic: Lying, Mean, Government, Reserves, Monetary System

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

- Louis D. Brandeis

source: Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)

topic: Freedom, Men, Evil, Beneficence, Lurking

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

source: "The New Freedom : A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People" by Woodrow Wilson, (p. 13), 1913.

topic: Fear, Men, Views, Power And Control, State Government

We have, in this country, one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board. This evil institution has impoverished the people of the United States and has practically bankrupted our government. It has done this through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it.

- Louis Thomas McFadden

source: "100 Years Is Enough: Time to Make the Fed a Public Utility" by Ellen Brown, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 23, 2013.

topic: Country, Practice, Government, Central Banking, Central Banks

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

- Felix Frankfurter

topic: Freedom, Real, Exercise, Controlling Government, Conspiracy Theory

There does exist and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates, to some extent, in the way the radical Right believes the Communists act. 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. I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for 20 years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960s, to examine its papers and secret record.

- Carroll Quigley

topic: Money, Believe, Two, Cooperating, One World Government

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

- James Madison

topic: Nature, Patriotic, Angel, Liberty And Justice, Federalist

When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation

- Napoleon Bonaparte

topic: Government, Leader, Bankers, Controlling Government, Banks And Money

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

- James Madison

topic: Adversity, Angel, Men, Presidents Day, Liberty And Justice

There is a single theme behind all our work-we must reduce population levels,

- Thomas Ferguson

topic: Levels, Population, Theme, Depopulation, El Salvador

The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining super capitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control.... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent.

- Larry McDonald

topic: Mean, Government, Evil, Cabal, Old World

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. At the head is a small group of banking houses... This little coterie...runs our government for their own selfish ends. It operates under cover of a self-created screen...seizes...our executive officers...legislative bodies...schools... courts...newspapers and every agency created for the public protection.

- John Francis Hylan

source: "David Rockefeller's Chilling 1991 Speech at a Bilderberg Meeting" by Kalee Brown, www.lewrockwell.com. March 24, 2017.

topic: Running, Selfish, Real, One World Government, World Order

The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.

- Louis D. Brandeis

topic: Men, Rights, Liberty, Law Courts, Laws And Government

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

- Benjamin Disraeli

source: Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.2513, Delphi Classics

topic: Political, Different, World, State Government, Head Of State

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.

- James Madison

topic: Lying, Angel, Men, Liberty And Justice, Limiting Government

The depression was the calculated 'shearing' of the public by the World Money powers, triggered by the planned sudden shortage of supply of call money in the New York money market....The One World Government leaders and their ever close bankers have now acquired full control of the money and credit machinery of the U.S. via the creation of the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank.

- Curtis Bean Dall

source: "Franklin Roosevelt, My Exploited Father-in-Law" by Curtis Dall, 1968.

topic: New York, Government, Leader, One World Government, World Order

Each central banksought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world.

- Carroll Quigley

topic: Country, Government, World, Foreign Exchange, Central Banking

Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.

- David R. Brower

topic: Government, Parent, Citizens, Reducing, Childbearing

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

- R. Buckminster Fuller

source: R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Critical Path”, p.197, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

topic: Powerful, Historical, Ambitious, Controlling Government

The Trilateralist Commission is international...(and)...is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States. The Trilateralist Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power - political, monetary, intellectual, and ecclesiastical.

- Barry Goldwater

topic: Government, Effort, Political, Consolidation, Controlling Government