The quote is definitely from Taylor Caldwell's 'A Pillar of Iron' (historical novel, written in 1965).  But does that make it any less true?

It didn't take the Illuminati long to hijack America, starting with Alexander Hamilton's establishing a central bank controlled by the Rothschilds.  Washington was a great general and an honorable man (he could have made himself king), but he was duped as are so many, like James Madison who would found the 2nd central bank after Jefferson refused to renew the charter of the first.  Andrew Jackson killed the central bank of his time condemning the banksters as "a den of vipers and thieves."

Washington DC is completely designed according to Masonic order.  The Masonic Temple is positioned on 13th Street.

Socialism creates nothing, it appropriates everything.  It is like a child that steals another's toy and says, "Mine!"

I have mixed feelings about Lincoln.  History books rarely if ever delve into the efforts of the Rothschild banking cartel to destroy the American republic.  Financing war with debt is their modus operandi by even financing both sides of conflict (see the Napoleonic Wars).  Lincoln refused to deal with them and raised funds by printing the Greenbacks, essentially the government loaning itself interest-free currency.  The Rothschild Banks of England and France financed both sides of the Civil War.  Lincoln's sole object was to "preserve the Union" by any means necessary.

Unfortunately it meant the transformation from a republican form of government to a statist form.  Who knows if the changes could have been reformed after the war, because the Rothschild's had Lincoln assassinated (and later Garfield, too, as he was working on a way to keep the Greenbacks and gold-backed currencies in circulation).

After Lincoln's death, the Constitution took on a completely different tone from a rule book for the government to a rule book for the People/States.  The Reconstruction Amendments were 'Deconstruction' amendments.  America has never recovered and has ushered in total control by the Rothschild institutions that carry on even to this day.

Quigley's book was a history book not an expose of the globalist agenda. 

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.

Never trust a Rhodes scholar.  They are hand-picked, trained globalists being groomed for positions of power.  The WEF is most likely the front-man organization for the globalists while more secretive 'clubs' continue to pull the strings from behind the scenes.

Tell that to those pushing the Covid vax, lock-downs, masks, shuttering farms, mercury-filled fluorescent bulbs, closing power plants, 'climate change', etc. all promoted from Ivy League 'educated' experts...

Great question. You can start by "asking not what my country can do for me." Our answers ultimately determine the fate of the country.

"The systematic study of mass psychology revealed to students the potentialities of invisible government of society by manipulation of the motives which actuate man in the group. Trotter and Le Bon, who approached the subject in a scientific manner, and Graham Wallas, Walter Lippmann and others who continued with searching studies of the group mind, established that the group has mental characteristics distinct from those of the individual, and is motivated by impulses and emotions which cannot be explained on the basis of what we know of individual psychology. So the question naturally arose: If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, is it not possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it?"
~ Edward L. Bernays, Propaganda (1923)

"Whatever attitude one chooses to take toward this condition, it remains a fact that in almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons—a trifling fraction of our hundred and twenty million—who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world."
~ Edward L. Bernays, Propaganda (1923)

I'm not sure that 'educated' would be the word I would use, as today, educated seems to be more 'indoctrinated' than thoughtful.  The more educated a person has been, the greater chance they are to believe in 'climate change,' lawyers, doctors, news anchors, actors and 'authorities.'

A true seeker of truth is not afraid of considering all points of view and may even actively seek them outside of his/her own bubble.  The truth already 'is' — discerning it is another matter ...

Agreed.  The 'end-of-the-worlders' have more often than not hurried along only their own demise.  'Near' is indeed a relative term, as it may be hundreds of years away.  But decisions and acts we take today determine the end generations from now in so many ways.

Looking at the history of Ice Ages to which the Earth has been subject for several million years, the last 12,000 years of 'global warming' is  pushing the limit of what has been historically a 10,000 year period of warm temperatures followed by 100,000 years of ice age.  From that perspective, the end may very well be 'near' for civilization as we know it even if it were 150 years from now.

And if the Earth were to pass through another meteor field as has been theorized to have happened 14,000 and 19,000 years ago (and perhaps on a cyclical basis for milions of years), there aren't sufficient glaciers to provide a buffer to merely flood the Earth this time 'round but may end up consuming it in fire.  Scientific predictions and 'prophesies' may ultimately intersect.  "A time for every purpose under heaven."  Nature's God does indeed rule...  Cheers!

Glad to hear it.  How about letting everyone else take responsibility for their actions, too — meaning all your lofty ideas for socialist utopia are down the drain...

If only!!

Good point!

That's the difference between a republican form of government founded upon the natural-born rights of man and every other form of government. 

The Common Law upon which justice is dispensed is based upon the protection of the rights of man, not the compulsion to obey the dictates of men.  Learn the difference.

More communist dribble.  A 'blueprint' to provided by whom?  The ruling elite of course, to whom the cream of the crop will be claimed as their own.

Communist dribble.

Amen! ;-)

There is no way to legislate morality without tyranny.  'Prejudice' is merely a personal opinion treated as fact.  All of us are capable of being prejudicial, and all of us are capable of overcoming it.  Ignore it at your own peril.  I don't believe everything that comes into my head — I do endeavor to discern rightly, honestly and compassionately.  It is a personal moral code — a path and the way to Truth and Happiness. 

Excellent, thank you.

It is the Truth that sets one free, so ...

Is Fred trying trying to qualify for the most stupid questions ever asked?  He definitely has my vote.

Fred demonstrates perfectly the cognitive dissonance of a collectivist mind that cannot conceive of an independent, self-determining individual in fellowship with other self-respecting people who value their freedom more than their security in a school of fish.

It is the duty of the People to keep the 'State' in check.  The Constitution and Bill of Rights is the rule book for the government, not the People.  We the People formed a republican form of government which is subject to the rights of man.  A statist form of government makes all men subjects to the rule of the State.  Learn the difference, otherwise become a slave to the usurpation of the State — which are merely other men claiming dominion over you.