"It was Mayer Amschel Rothschild who is quoted as saying:
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws." Biographer Frederic Morton concluded that the Rothschild dynasty had: "conquered the world more thoroughly, more cunningly, and much more lastingly than all the Ceasers before or all the Hitlers after them." The dynasty was begun in Frankfurt, Germany, in the middle of the eighteenth centruy by Mayer Amschel Bauer, the son of a goldsmith. Mayer became a clerk in the Oppenheimer Bank in Hanover and was ebentually promoted to junior partner. After his father's death, he returned to his home in Frankfurt to continue the family business. Over the door hung a red shield with an eagle as a sign to identify the establishment. The German worlds for red shield are roth schild, so he changed his name form Bauer to Rothschild and added five gold arrows held in the talons of the eagle to represent his five sons.The Rothschild fortune began with Mayer adopted the practice of fractional-reserve banking. As we have seen, he was not alone in this, but the House of Rothschild greatly surpassed the competition. That was due to his sharp business acumen and also because of his five most unusual sons, all of whom became financial power centers of their own. As they matured and learned the magic of converting debt into money, they moved beyond the confines of Frankfurt and established additional operations in the financial center, not only of Europe, but of much of the civilized world.
Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, the brothers conducted important transactions on behalf of the governments of England, France, Prussia, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Naples, Portugal, Brazil, various German states, and other smaller countries. They were the personal bankers of many of the crowned heads of Europe. They made large investments, through agents, in markets as distant as the United States, India, Cuba, and Australia. They were financiers to Cecil Rhodes, making it possible for him to establish a monopoly over the diamond fields of South Africa. They are still connected with the de Beers.
Secrecy, of course, is essential for the success of a cabal, and the Rothschilds perfected the art. By remaining behind the scenes, they were able to avoid the brunt of public anger which was directed, instead, at the political figures which they largely controlled. This is a technique which has been practiced by financial manipulators ever since, and it is fully utilized by those who operate the Federal Reserve System today."1
1. G. Edward Griffin, The Creature from Jekyll Island - A Second Look at the Federal Reserve (American Media, P.O. Box 4646, Westlake Village, CA 91359-1646) 218-219