Quote by Carroll Quigley
In addition to their power over government based on government fin

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. – Carroll Quigley

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Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war. – Carroll Quigley

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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. – Carroll Quigley

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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. – Carroll Quigley

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Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile. – William Lyon Mackenzie King

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The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point. – Jon Meacham

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The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors two, facility to acquirers and three, hope to all. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves. – William Ellery Channing

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