“… those who formally rule take their signals and commands, not from the electorate as a body, but from a small group of men… the Establishment. It exists even though that existence is stoutly denied, it is one of the secrets of the American social order. A second secret is the fact that the existence of the Establishment – the ruling class – is not supposed to be discussed. A third secret is implicit in what has been said – that there is only one political party of any consequence in the United States… the “Prosperity Party.” The Republicans and the Democrats are in fact two branches of the same (secret) party.” —Professor of Political Science Carroll Quigley, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY; author Tragedy and Hope.
“The powers of financial capitalism had (a) far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences. The apex of the systems was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world’s central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank…sought 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
(Tragedy & Hope)
“When the business interests … pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally, Indeed, some of them intended to contribute to both and to allow an alternation of the two parties in public office in order to conceal their own influence, inhibit any exhibition of independence of politicians, and allow the electorate to believe that they were exercising their own free choice.”—Professor Carroll Quigley in his book, “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time.”
