"It was not my intention to doubt that the doctrine of the Illuminati and the principles of Jacobinism, had not spread in the United States.  On the contrary, no one is more satisfied of this fact than I am.

The idea I meant to convey was that I did not believe the Lodges of Freemasons in this country had, as societies, endeavored to propagate the diabolical tenets.

That individuals of them may have done it, or that the founder, or instruments employed to found the democratic societies in the United States may have had this object, and actually had a separation of the people from their government in view, is too evident to be questioned."

---George Washington to Reverend G. W. Snyder, 1798

"Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery."

---Thomas Jefferson: Rights of British America, 1774

"Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it."

---Woodrow Wilson

"We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent."

---James Paul Warburg, speaking before the United States Senate

A plan to bring about a convergence or merger of the U.S. and the USSR is not a recent policy response to the supposed reforms of Gorbachev and Yeltsin. It first came to light officially in 1953 when public concern over large tax-exempt foundation grants to communists and communist causes prompted Congress to investigate. Of particular concern were the funding activities of the Carnegie, Ford, and Rockefeller Foundations.

Perhaps the most startling revelation of that investigation came when Ford Foundation president H. Rowan Gaither admitted to Norman Dodd, staff director of the Congressional Special Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations:

"Of course, you know that we at the executive level here were, at one time or another, active in either the OSS, the State Department, or the European Economic administration. During those times, and without exception, we operated under directives issued by the White House. We are continuing to be guided by just such directives.... The substance [of these directives] was to the effect that we should make every effort to so alter life in the United States as to make possible a comfortable merger with the Soviet Union."

"Once the ruling members of the CFR have decided that the U.S. government should adopt a particular policy, the very substantial research facilities of the CFR are put to work to develop arguments, intellectual and emotional, to support the new policy, and to confound and discredit, intellectually and politically, any opposition."

Quotable Salvos at American Sovereignty will be highlighted on this page henceforth:

"Two centuries ago our forefathers brought forth a new nation; now we must join with others to bring forth a new world order."

---Declaration of Interdependence, signed by 124 members of Congress, January 30, 1976

"We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time magazine, and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their  promise 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 sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government.  The super-national sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries."

---David Rockefeller, at a 1991 Bilderberger meeting

"Nationhood as we know it will be obsolete;  all states will recognize a single, global authority.  National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all."

---Strobe Talbott, former Deputy Secretary of State and Bill Clinton's Oxford roommate, in Time, July 1992

"This regionalization is in keeping with the Trilateral Plan which calls for a gradual convergence of East and West, ultimately leading toward the goal of one world government. National sovereignty is no longer a viable concept."

---Zbignew Brezinski, National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter

"It is the sacred principles enshrined in the United Nations charter to which the American people will henceforth pledge their allegiance."

---President George Bush addressing the General Assembly of the U.N., February 1, 1992

"The New World Order is a world that has a super-national authority to regulate world commerce and industry; an international organization that would control the production and consumption of oil; an international currency that would replace the dollar; a World Development Fund that would make funds available to free and communist nations alike; and an international police force to enforce the edicts of the New World Order."

---Willy Brandt, Former West German Chancellor and former chairman of the Fifth Socialist International

"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order."

---David Rockefeller

"But this present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for long. Already there are powerful forces at work that threaten to destroy all of our hopes and efforts to erect an enduring structure of global interdependence."

---David Rockefeller, speaking at the Business Council for the United Nations, September 14, 1994

"A colossal event is upon us, the birth of a New World Order."

---Brent Scowcroft, George Bush's National Security Advisor, on the eve of the Gulf War

"The Persian Gulf crisis is a rare opportunity to forge new bonds with old enemies (the Soviet Union). Out of these troubled times a New World Order can merge under a United Nations that performs as envisioned by its founders."

George Bush, September 11, 1990

"The world can therefore seize the opportunity (the Persian Gulf crisis) to fulfill the long-held promise of a New World Order where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind."

---George Bush, in his State of the Union Address, January 29, 1991

"NAFTA is a major stepping stone to the New World Order."

---Henry Kissinger, campaigning for the passage of NAFTA

"Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a New World Order."

---Mikhail Gorbachev, in an address to the United Nations, December 1988

"We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money."

---Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in Foreign Affairs, July/August 1995

"In short, the 'house of world order' will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down. It will look like a great 'booming, buzzing confusion.' To use William James' famous description of reality, but an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault."

---Richard N. Gardner, in Foreign Affairs, April 1974

"When the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people will hate the new world order - and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people."

---H.G. Wells, in his book entitled The New World Order (1939)

"Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed."

---Sara Brady, Chairwoman, Handgun Control, to Sen. Howard Metzenbaum,  January 1994

"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans."

- Bill Clinton, U.S.A. Today, March 11, 1993

"Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in fostering high morale and community of purpose. The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao's leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history."

---David Rockefeller, statement about Mao Tse-tung in The New York Times, August 10, 1973

"War to the hilt between communism and capitalism is inevitable. Today, of course, we are not strong enough to attack. Our time will come in thirty or fifty years. To win, we shall need the element of surprise. The Western world will need to be put to sleep. So we shall begin by launching the most spectacular peace movement on record. There shall be electrifying overtures and unheard of concessions. The capitalist countries, stupid and decadent, will rejoice to cooperate to their own destruction. They will leap at another chance to be friends. As soon as their guard is down, we shall smash them with our clenched fist."

---Dmitrii Z. Manuilskii, Lenin School of Political Warfare, Moscow, 1931

"I want to extend condolences to the families of those who died in the service of the United Nations."

---Al Gore, as he traveled to Marrakech, Morocco, for the signing of the new world trade agreement. Gore appeared hours after U.S. planes enforcing an allied 'no fly' zone over northern Iraq accidentally shot down two helicopters, killing 15 Americans and 11 foreign officials. The Los Angeles Times, June 12, 1994

"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule."

---H. L. Mencken

"The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States: We can't let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the U.S. We have to stop these third world countries right where they are. And it is important to the rest of the world to make sure that they don't suffer economically by virtue of our stopping them."

--- Michael Oppenheimer, Environmental Defense Fund

"Human beings, as species, have no more value than slugs."

---John Davis, editor of Earth First Journal

"We've got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing - in terms of economic policy and environmental policy."

---Timothy Wirth, former U.S. Senator (D-Colo.), presently with the United Nations

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed - and hence clamorous to be led to safety- and menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

---H. L. Mencken

"If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower the human population levels."

---Prince Phillip of Great Britain, World Wildlife Fund

"Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring about?"

---Maurice Strong, Head of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro

"We reject the idea of private property."

---Peter Berle, president of the National Audubon Society

"The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency."

---Pope John Paul II

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

---Abraham Lincoln

• From The New American, August 16, 1999:

A Military "NAFTA"

Those interested in seeing an earlier treatment of the same proposal should also acquire a copy of the 1912 political novel Philip Dru: Administrator, in which author Edward Mandell House, intimate adviser to President Woodrow Wilson and founder of the Council on Foreign Relations, called for the "unity of the northern half of the Western Hemisphere" under a single unified military command running "from the Arctic Sea to the canal at Panama."

UN Wants to Tax E-Mail

The United Nations Development Program's 1999 Human Development Report "proposes a tax equivalent of one US cent on every 100 e-mails that an individual might send," reported Katie Dean of Wired News on July 13th. UN economist Kate Raworth, co-author of the report, insists that "the Internet has the potential to offset inequalities in the global community, but if we don't take action it will only reinforce them."

Had this plan been in place in 1996, according to Raworth, the e-mail tax would have collected $70 billion that could have been used for "development assistance" - that is, money stolen from productive people in the West to squander on corrupt, entrenched Third World elites.

• From Time Magazine,  September 17, 1990

"The Bush Administration, would like to make the U.N. a cornerstone of its plans to construct a New World Order." In his speech to the nation and the world on September 11, 1990, Mr. Bush stated: "Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective -- a new world order -- can emerge...."He proceeded to announce his hopes for "a United Nations that performs as envisioned by its founders."

• From Free Market.net., July 26, 2000 http://www.free-market.net/spotlight/drugspeech/

The UN has announced that "freedom of expression cannot remain unrestricted when it conflicts with other essential values and rights." Drug warriors in the U.S. have taken this to heart and are now determined to stifle and control what people say about drugs.