A quote from J.P.Morgan

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"By dividing the people we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd." JP Morgan...

[Kdillard]

1. Wise quote. Dems have bigger fish to fry.

[rurallib]

2. I counter with my favorite Jay Gould quote

"I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half. "

The rich made up the rules to this game a long time ago and refuse to tell us we are even playing.

[Imagevision]

3. @rurallib - I like that...

[corkhead]

6. +1000

that quote is all I needed to learn today.
Thank you.

[Imagevision]

4. I don't think the average person would understand Morgan's quote

[DeSwiss]

5. K&R

Here's the full text of the "Banker's Manifesto of 1892"

"We (the bankers) must proceed with caution and guard every move made, for the lower order of people are already showing signs of restless commotion. Prudence will therefore show a policy of apparently yielding to the popular will until our plans are so far consummated that we can declare our designs without fear of any organized resistance. The Farmers Alliance and Knights of Labor organizations in the United States should be carefully watched by our trusted men, and we must take immediate steps to control these organizations in our interest or disrupt them.

At the coming Omaha Convention to be held July 4th (1892), our men must attend and direct its movement, or else there will be set on foot such antagonism to our designs as may require force to overcome. This at the present time would be premature. We are not yet ready for such a crisis. Capital must protect itself in every possible manner through combination and legislation.

The courts must be called to our aid, debts must be collected, bonds and mortgages foreclosed as rapidly as possible.

When through the process of the law, the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and easily governed through the influence of the strong arm of the government applied to a central power of imperial wealth under the control of the leading financiers. People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders.

History repeats itself in regular cycles. This truth is well known among our principal men who are engaged in forming an imperialism of the world. While they are doing this, the people must be kept in a state of political antagonism.

The question of tariff reform must be urged through the organization known as the Democratic Party, and the question of protection with the reciprocity must be forced to view through the Republican Party.

By thus dividing voters, we can get them to expand their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us, except as teachers to the common herd. Thus, by discrete action, we can secure all that has been so generously planned and successfully accomplished."

(http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/428250-michael-clark/27134-nothing-new-under-the-sun-the-bankers-manifesto-of-1892-and-the-business-depressions-of-1893-1911">link)

[Imagevision]

8. @DeSwiss - nice piece...

[DeSwiss]

9. And....

...the worst of it is, it appears to be historically accurate.


- And it's still working.......

[kentuck]

10. This should be posted as a stand alone thread.

Very interesting.

[pnorman]

7. Here's the full quote:

"By thus dividing voters, we can get them to expand their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us, except as teachers to the common herd. Thus, by discrete action, we can secure all that has been so generously planned and successfully accomplished."
http://www.redicecreations.com/specialreports/2005/07jul/bankersmanifesto.html

The wording is slightly different, and is cited by Charles Lindberg's father, a midwest Populist, essentially a Socialist I'll double-check later, but I expect it to be an authentic quote.