"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 fields of commerce and
manufacturing- are afraid of somebody. 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, 1913
"The individual is handicapped, by coming face-to-face, with a conspiracy so monstrous, he cannot believe it exists. The American mind, simply has not come to a
realization of the evil, which has been introduced into our midst . . . It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy,
which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent."
- FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, 1956
"For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence - on infiltration instead of
invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system that has conscripted
vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic,
scientific and political operations."
- John F Kennedy, 1963
"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
-physicist Steven Weinberg, 1999