Notable Carroll Quigley Quotes from Tragedy and Hope

There does exist, and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates, to some extent, in the way the radical Right believes the Communists act. In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so. I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for twenty years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960's, to examine its papers and secret records. I have no aversion to it or to most of its aims and have, for much of my life, been close to it and to many of its instruments. I have objected, both in the past and recently, to a few of its policies [...], but in general my chief difference of opinion is that it wishes to remain unknown, and I believe its role in history is significant enough to be known. ~Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope

“The Council on Foreign Relations is the American branch of a society which originated in England [and] believes national boundaries should be obliterated and one-world rule established.” ~Professor Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope, A History of the World in Our Time, pg. 950-951 (1966)

"When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally. Indeed, some of them intended to contribute to both and to allow an alternation of the two parties in public office in order to conceal their own influence ... and to allow the electorate to believe that they were exercising their own free choice." ~Carroll Quigley, 1966, "Tragedy and Hope" (Quigley was a Professor of, and the mentor to, former U.S. President Bill Clinton)

“The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences.” ~Carroll Quigley, 1966, "Tragedy and Hope" (Quigley was a Professor of, and the mentor to, former U.S. President Bill Clinton)