Quotations Appropriate for Today's Issues

David Cobb (Green Party Presidential Candidate in 2004), 2004:
"The Green Party is the electoral arm of the peace and justice movement."

Josef Stalin (Soviet Premier, 1922-1953), date unknown
"It's not the people who vote that count; it's the people who count the votes." [There's some argument about whether or not he actually said this, but whoever said it, it's even more true today than in Stalin's day.]

Winston Churchill (Prime Minister of England during World War II), 1943:
"The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist."

Theodore Roosevelt (26th President of the United States), 1926:
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."

David Rockefeller (banker), 1991:
"We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine, and other great publiations whose directors have attended our meetings and respected the promises of discretion for almost forty years.

"It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But the world is now more sophistiated and prepared to march towards a world government.

"The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries."

Amschel Mayer Rothschild (banker), 1838:
"Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws."

Benito Mussolini (the inventor of Fascism), 1932:
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power."


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