G. Edward Griffin Quotes

United States, Conspiracy Theorist
November 7, 1931

G. Edward Griffin (born November 7, 1931) is an American far-right conspiracy theorist, author, lecturer, and filmmaker. He is the author of The Creature from Jekyll Island (1994), which promotes false theories about the motives behind the creation of the Federal Reserve System. Griffin's writings include a number of views regarding various political, defense and health care interests.

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The Civil War was started over economic issues, not slavery. The War was not popular in the North until the issue of slavery was added at a later time to turn it into a moral crusade.

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- Time
- War
- Moral
The information that follows is taken primarily...from government hearings and reports published from various Senate and House committees.

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- House
- Government
- Taken

When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty.

G. Edward Griffin
When the Goths are at the gates, forming study groups and praying for deliverance is not effective defense.

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- Study
- Defense
- Groups
In 1938, I. G. Farben sent a letter to (a major drug firm), one of its American subsidiaries, (that)..all advertising contracts must contain '...a legal clause whereby the contract is immediately cancelled if overnight the attitude of the paper toward Germany should be changed.

G. Edward Griffin
- American
- Dark
- Attitude
[...] it is generally accepted that the Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery. That, at best, is a half-truth. Slavery was an issue, but the primary force for war was a clash between the economic interests of the North and the South. Even the issue of slavery itself was based on economics.

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- Truth
- War
- Slavery