Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"In March, 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, shipbuilding, and powder interest, and their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press. … They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers. An agreement was reached; the policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by the month; an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial policies, and other things of national and international nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers."

~ Oscar Callaway  

"There is a de facto “secret government” operating nationally and internationally and involved in the highest circles of the U.S. government, exercising an impact over domestic policies and economics ranging between extreme influence to, at times, outright control. This extreme influence to outright control naturally includes the Presidency. The de facto "secret government," much of whose intellectual -- and financial -- muscle are to be found in the New York office of the CFR, the great tax-free foundations, and certain international firms and corporations."

~ Mike Culbert  

"But we’re not a democracy. It’s a terrible misunderstanding
and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that.
In reality, we’re a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy."

~ Ramsey Clark  

"History is an account mostly false,
of events mostly unimportant,
which are brought about by rulers,
mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools."

~ Ambrose Bierce  

~ Charles Austin Beard  

"We believe the picture painters of the mass media
are artfully creating landscapes for us
which deliberately hide the real picture.
In this book we will show you how to discover
the "hidden picture" in the landscapes presented
to us daily through newspapers, radio and television."

~ Gary Allen  

"Corruption is no stranger to Washington; it is a famous resident."

~ Walter Goodman  

"There exists a shadowy government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself."

~ Daniel K. Inouye  

"You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook."

~ Harry S. Truman  

"Perhaps the most obvious political effect of controlled news is the
advantage it gives powerful people in getting their issues on the
political agenda and defining those issues in ways likely to influence
their resolution."

~ W. Lance Bennett  

"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  

"No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies."

~ Salvador de Madariaga  

"The worst thing that can happen to a good cause
is not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended."

~ Frederic Bastiat  

"We shall not grow wiser before we learn that
much that we have done was very foolish."

~ Friedrich August von Hayek  

"The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask as justice."

~ Justice Robert H. Jackson