Paul Hellyer Quotes

“Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about where we were headed and offered to help. But instead we, or at least some of us, interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after. The veil of secrecy must be lifted and it has to be lifted now, before it is too late.”

“It is true that our collective military strength has been a deterrent to communist aggression. It is equally true – now that both sides possess the means of mass annihilation ≠ that military might alone will not solve our problems or protect us from encirclement.”

“Since the industrial revolution, we have been plagued with periodic recessions and depressions, described as the 'lows' of the business cycle. It should be made perfectly clear that these recessions, unlike famines, are not Acts of God, but simply attributable to the folly and inflexibility of man.”

“The world financial system is a total fraud. It is one gargantuan Ponzi scheme, no better than the one Bernie Madoff used to swindle his friends and neighbors, and thousands of times worse if you add up the total number of victims it has ripped off over countless generations. The principal difference between the two schemes is that Madoff was acting outside the law while the international banking cartel has persuaded generation after generation of monarchs, presidents and prime ministers to provide legislative protection for their larceny.”