"When a government is dependent for money upon the bankers, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes.... financiers are without patriotism and without decency..."
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) French general who became Emperor of the French and dictator of Western Europe alluding to the pernicious influence of moneylenders, the very same that would eventually control the central banks of Europe and America and therefore the credit of the West.
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