John C. Calhoun, the 7th Vice President of the United States, once said that “a power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many, and various, and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.”
He’s not the only person to have done so; countless politicians have told us the same thing, including presidents. You can see 10 examples in an article we published a few months ago here
It is becoming apparent that there is a government within our government, operating without our knowledge or consent – a government which, as Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States, explained to us, is “so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that [we] had better not speak above [our] breath when [we] speak in condemnation of it.”