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Get a Load of These Civil War Quotes You Won’t Find in a Mainstream History Book.

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“Europe’s aristocracies had never been happy about the prodigious success of the Yankee democracy.

“If the nation now broke into halves, proving that democracy did not contain the stuff of survival, the rulers of Europe would be well pleased.”

– Bruce Catton

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“I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way, the social and political equality of the white and black races.

“… I, as much as any other man, am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.”

– Abraham Lincoln, in 1858 debate with Stephen Douglas (Lincoln didn’t
deliver the Emancipation Proclamation until 1863 in a last gasp to keep the
people of Britain and France opposed to their nations supporting the South)

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“After Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860, this minority of the Southern minority conspired to bring off a last gamble.

“In 1861, to the extremists’ amazement, disunion triumphed.”

– William W. Freehling, discussing the secret society “Knights of the Golden Circle”.

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“To control (Northern) insurrection, Lincoln ignored the Constitution once again by suspending the right of habeas corpus, which made it possible for the government to imprison its critics without formal charges and without trial.

“Thus, under the banner of opposing slavery, American citizens in the North, not only were killed on the streets of their own cities, they were put into military combat against their will and thrown into prison without due process of law.

“In other words, free men were enslaved so that slaves could be made free.

“Even if the pretended crusade had been genuine, it was a bad exchange.”

– G. Edward Griffin

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“The boot print of the Rothschild formula is unmistakable across the graves of American soldiers on both sides (of the Civil War).”

– G. Edward Griffin

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“In mid-1861, with the war just beginning, U.S. Treasury secretary Salmon Chase (the namesake of Chase Manhattan Bank) asked for and received from Congress the first income tax instituted in America.

“It began as a meager three percent federal tax on all income, but only a year later the tax was raised to five percent on all income over $10,000. 

” “It was a graduated income tax, just as proposed by Karl Marx just 13 years before,” voted Epperson, intimating that hidden agendas were being pressed behind the contingencies of war.”

– Jim Marrs, Rule by Secrecy

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“The division of the United States into federations of equal force was decided long before the Civil War by the high financial powers of Europe.

“These bankers were afraid that the United States, if they remained in one block and as one nation, would attain economic and financial independence, which would upset their financial domination over the world.

“The voice of the Rothschilds prevailed.

“…Therefore they sent their emissaries into the field to exploit the question of slavery and to open an abyss between the two sections of the Union.

“Things had gone from bad to worse until I felt that we had reached the end of our rope on the plan of operations we had been pursuing; that we had about played our last card, and must change our tactics or lose the game.

“I now determined upon the adoption of the emancipation policy.”

– Abraham Lincoln, exposing how slavery didn’t become an issue until halfway through the Civil War

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“My paramount object in this struggle is to save the union … If I could save the union without freeing any slaves, I would do it; if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.”

– Abraham Lincoln, in 1862 (Lincoln didn’t deliver the Emancipation Proclamation until 1863 in a last gasp to keep the people of Britain and France opposed to their nations supporting the South)

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“…each state could withdraw from the confederation, re-establish its sovereign nature and set up its own central bank.

“The Southern states could then have a series ofEuropean-controlled banks, the Bank of Georgia, the Bank of South Carolina, etc., and then any two could have a series of wars, such as in Europe for centuries, in the perpetual game of Balance of Power politics.

“It would be a successful method of insuring that large profits could be made on the loaning of money to the states involved.”

– Ralph Epperson, explaining the elite goal during its attempt at dividing America

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“It was estimated in 1910 that the total cost of the war, including pensions and the burial of veterans, totaled almost $12 billion, a preposterous sum at that time.

“In the middle of this immense flow of money was Rothschild agent Belmont, financing both sides.

“He strongly influenced bankers in both England and France to support the Union war effort by the purchase of government bonds.

“At the same time, he quietly bought up the increasingly worthless bank bonds of the South at great discounts, with the idea that the South would be forced to honor them in full after the war.

“In 1863 the Chicago Tribune assailed “elmont, the Rothschilds, and the whole tribe of Jews, who have been buying up Confederate bonds”.

“Much later, this charge was styled a “libel” by those who could not understand the duplicity of Belmont and his employers with their public pro-North sentiments.”

– Jim Marrs, Rule by Secrecy

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