Joe Klein, Why Legalizing Marijuana Makes Sense, (2009) http://www.time.com/time/nation/articles/0,8599,1889021,00.htmlThe U.S. is, by far, the most ‘criminal’ country in the world, with 5% of the world’s population and 25% of its prisoners. We spend $68 billion per year on corrections, and one-third of those being corrected are serving time for nonviolent drug crimes.
Edited by Edward J. Wheeler, Current Opinion, Vol. LXII January - June (The Current Literature Publishing Company, New York, 1917) p. 195.Unblushing materialism finds its crowning triumph in the theory of the modern school. In the whole plan there is not a spiritual thought, not an idea that rises above the need of finding money for the pocket and food for the belly…It is a matter of instant inquiry, for very sober consideration, whether the General Education Board, indeed, may not with the immense funds at its disposal be able to shape to its will practically all the institutions in which the youth of the country are trained.
General Education Board, Occasional Papers, No. 1 (General Education Board, New York, 1913) p. 6.In our dreams, we have limitless resources and the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present education conventions fade from their minds, and unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive rural folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning, or men of science. We have not to raise up from among them authors, editors, poets or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we have an ample supply…The task we set before ourselves is very simple as well as a very beautiful one, to train these people as we find them to a perfectly ideal life just where they are. So we will organize our children and teach them to do in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way, in the homes, in the shops and on the farm.
The World's Bank Vol. XXV (Doubleday, Page, & Company, New York, 1913) p. 631.A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated [in the Federal Reserve System]. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men.
Nathan K. Lewis, Addison Wiggin, Gold (John Wiley and Sons, 2007) p. 175.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 its issuance.
David Boylan, Fox News, as quoted in Genetic Engineering, Food, and Our Environment, by Luke AndersonWe paid $3 billion for these television stations. We will decide what the news is. The news is what we tell you it is.