Quotes from leaders around the world regarding “Jews”

Saint Thomas Aquinas

The Jews should not be allowed to keep what they have obtained from others by usury. It were best that they were compelled to work so that they could earn their living instead of doing nothing but becoming avaricious.

Pope Clement VIII

All the world suffers from the usury of the Jews, their monopolies and deceit. They have brought many unfortunate people into a state of poverty, especially the farmers, working class people and the very poor. Then as now, Jews have to be reminded intermittently anew that they were enjoying rights in any country since they left Palestine and the Arabian desert. Subsequently, their ethical and moral doctrines as well as their deeds rightly deserve to be exposed to criticism in whatever country they happen to live.

Ulysses S. Grant

I have long since believed that in spite of all the vigilance that can be infused into post commanders, the special regulations of the Treasury Department have been violated, that mostly by Jews and other unprincipled traitors. So well satisfied have I been of this that I instructed the commanding officers at Columbus to refuse all permits to Jews to come south, and I have frequently had them expelled from the Department, but they come in with their carpet sacks in spite of all that can be done to prevent it. The Jews seem to be a privileged class that can travel anywhere.

General Order No. 11 | Ulysses S. Grant (1862)

1. The Jews as a class, violating every regulation of trade established by the Treasury Department, and also Department orders, are hereby expelled from the Department.
2. Within 24 hours from the receipt of this order by post commanders, they will see that all of this class of people are furnished with passes and required to leave, and anyone returning after such notification will be arrested and held in confinement until an opportunity occurs of sending them out as prisoners unless furnished with permits from these headquarters.
3. No permits will be given these people to visit headquarters for the purpose of making personal applications for trade permits.

William T. Sherman

I found so many Jews and speculators here trading in cotton, and secessionists have become so open in refusing anything but gold, that I have felt myself bound to stop it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The Jews are the master robbers of the modern age. They are the carrion birds of humanity. They must be treated with political justice, not with civil justice. They are surely not real citizens.

The Jews have practiced usury since the time of Moses and oppressed the other peoples. We ought to ban the Jews from commerce because they abuse it. The evils of the Jews do not stem from individuals, but from the fundamental nature of this people.

**Jerome Napoleon I** (King of Westphalia)

Nothing more contemptible could be done than the reception of the Jews by you. I decided to improve the Jews, but I do not want any more of them in my kingdom. Indeed, I have done all to prove my scorn of the most vile nation in the world.

Ordinance of March 17, 1808. Napoleonic Code.

1. Every big and small Jew in the peddling trade must renew his license every year.
2. Checks and other obligations are only redeemable if the Jew can prove that he has obtained the money without cheating.

Francis Bacon

Jews hate the name of Christ and have a secret and innate rancour against the people among whom they live.

Saint Justin

The Jews were behind all the persecutions of the Christians. They wandered through the country everywhere hating and undermining the Christian faith.

Houston Stewart Chamberlain

The revelation of Christ has no significance for the Jew. I have searched through a whole library of Jewish books on the expectation of finding, naturally, not belief in the divinity of Christ, nor the idea of redemption, but the purely human feeling for the greatness of a suffering saviour, but in vain. A Jew who feels that is, in fact, no longer a Jew, but a denier of Judaism. And while we find, even in Muhammad's Koran, at least a vague conception of the importance of Christ and profound reverence for his personality, a cultured leading Jew of the 19th century, Gretz, calls Christ, quote, "the new birth with the death mask", end quote, which inflicted new and painful wounds upon the Jewish people. He cannot see anything else in Him.
In view of the cross, he assures us that, quote, the Jews do not require this convulsive emotion for their spiritual improvement, and adds, quote, "particularly not among the middle classes of inhabitants of the cities", close quote.
His comprehension goes further. In a book republished in 1880 by a Spanish Jew, Jose de Leon, Jesus Christ is called, quote, "a dead dog that lies buried in a dunghill".
Besides, the Jews have taken care to issue in the latter part of the 19th century several editions, naturally in Hebrew, of the so-called censured passages from the Talmud. Those passages usually omitted in which Christ is exposed to our scorn and hatred as a fool, a sorcerer, profane person, idolater, dog, bastard, child of lust, etc. So too, His sublime mother.

Martin Luther

All of the anxious sighing, longing and hoping of their hearts is directed to the time when someday they would like to deal with us heathen as they dealt with the heathen in Persia at the time of Esther. And how they love the book of Esther which so nicely agrees with their bloodthirsty, revengeful and murderous desire and hope. The sun never did shine on a more bloodthirsty and revengeful people as they who imagined to be the people of God and who desire to and think they must murder and crush the heathen. And the foremost undertaking which they expect of their Messiah is that he should slay and murder the whole world with the sword. As they at first demonstrated against us Christians, and would like to do now if they only could, have also tried it often and have been repeatedly struck on their snouts.
Therefore know, my dear Christians, that next to the devil you have no more bitter or poisonous, more vehement an enemy than a real Jew who earnestly desires to be a Jew.

Should someone think I am saying too much? I am saying much too little, for I see in their writings how they curse us goyim and wish us all evil in their schools and prayers. They rob us of our money through usury, and wherever they are able, they play us all manner of mean tricks. No heathen has done such things, and none would do so except the devil himself and those whom he possesses as he possesses the Jews.

Now what are we going to do with these rejected, condemned Jewish people?
Let us apply the ordinary wisdom of other nations like France, Spain, Bohemia, and others, who made them give an account of what they had stolen through usury, divided it evenly, but expelled them from their country. For as heard before, God's wrath is so great over them that through soft mercy they only become more wicked, through hard treatment, however, only a little better. Therefore, away with them.

Maybe mild-hearted and gentle Christians will believe that I am too rigorous and drastic against the poor, afflicted Jews, believing that I ridicule them and treat them with much sarcasm. By my word, I am far too weak to be able to ridicule such a satanic brood. I would feign to do so, but they are far greater adepts at mockery than I, and possess a God who is master in this art. It is the evil one himself.

Even with no further evidence in the Old Testament, I would maintain, and no person on earth could alter my opinion, that the Jews, as they are today, are veritably a mixture of all the depraved and malevolent knaves of the whole world over, who have then been dispersed in all countries similarly to the tartars, gypsies, and such folk.

Cicero

The Jews belong to a dark and repulsive force. One knows how numerous this clique is, how they stick together, and what power they exercise through their unions. They are a nation of rascals and deceivers.

The Prophet Mohammed

Whoever is a friend of a Jew, belongs to them, becomes one of them. God cannot tolerate this mean people. The Jews have wandered from divine religion, you must not relent in your work which must show up Jewish deceit.

Richard Wagner

The Jew has never had an art of his own, hence never alive of art-enabling import. So long as the separate art of music had a real organic life need in it, down to the epochs of Mozart and Beethoven, there was nowhere to be found a Jew composer

It was utterly impossible for an element quite foreign to that living organism to take a part in the formative stages of that life. Only when a body's inner death is manifest do outside elements win the power of judgment in it, yet merely to destroy it. On one thing I am clear, that is the influence which the Jews have gained upon our mental life, as displayed in the deflection and falsification of our highest cultural tendencies.

Whether the downfall of our culture can be arrested by a violent rejection of the destructive alien element, I am unable to decide, since that would require forces with whose existence I am unacquainted.

Franz Liszt

The day will come when all nations amidst which the Jews are dwelling will have to raise the question of their wholesale expulsion. A question which will be one of life or death, good health or chronic disease, peaceful existence or perpetual social fever.

Winston Churchill

This movement among the Jews is not new. From the days of Spartacus Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx and down to Trotsky from Russia, Bella Kuhn from Hungary, Rosa Luxemburg from Germany, and Emma Goldman from the United States, this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstruction of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and of impossible equality has been steadily growing. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th century, and now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworlds of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become practically the undisputed masters of the enormous empire.

There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creating of Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution by these international and, for the most part, atheistic Jews. The majority of the leading figures are Jews. Moreover, the principal inspiration and driving power comes from the Jewish leaders.

In the Soviet institutions, the predominance of Jews is even more astounding. The prominent, if not the principal part, in the system of terrorism applied by the extraordinary commissions for combating counter-revolution has been taken by Jews, and in some notable cases by Jewesses.
The same evil prominence was obtained by Jews in the brief period of terror during which Velikon ruled in Hungary. The same phenomenon has been presented in Germany, especially Bavaria, so far as this madness has been allowed to prey upon the temporary prostration of the German people.

Although in all these countries there are many non-Jews every whit as bad as the worst of the Jewish revolutionaries, the part played by the latter in proportion to their numbers and the population is astounding.

Kaiser Wilhelm II

A Jew cannot be a true patriot. He is something different, like a bad insect. He must be kept apart, out of a place where he can do mischief. The Jews are responsible for Bolshevism in Russia, and Germany too. I was far too indulgent with them during my reign, and I bitterly regret the favours I showed the prominent Jewish bankers.

Cardinal József Mindszenty

The troublemakers in Hungary are the Jews. They demoralise our country. They are the leaders of the revolutionary gang that is torturing Hungary.

Vladimir Lenin

Those Jewish Marxists who join up in the international Marxist organizations, adding their might to the creation of an international culture of the working class movement, are continuing the best traditions of Jewry.

H. L. Mencken

The Jews could be put down very plausibly as the most unpleasant race ever heard of. As commonly encountered, they lack any of the qualities that mark the civilized man. Courage, dignity, incorruptibility, ease, and confidence. They have vanity without pride, voluptuousness without taste, and learning without wisdom. Their fortitude, such as it is, is wasted upon puerile objects. Their charity is mainly a form of display.

I am one of the few goyim who have ever actually tackled the Talmud. I suppose you now expect me to add that it is a profound and noble work, worthy of hard study by all other goyim. Unhappily, my report must differ from this expectation. It seems to me, save for a few bright spots, to be quite indistinguishable from rubbish.

George Bernard Shaw

This is the real enemy - the invader from the East, the Druze, the ruffian, the oriental parasite, in a word, the Jew. This craving for bouquets by Jews is a symptom of racial degeneration. The Jews are worse than my own people. Those Jews who still want to be the chosen race, chosen by the late Lord Balfour, can go to Palestine and stew in their own juice. The rest had better stop being Jews and start being human beings.

Voltaire

Why are the Jews hated? It is the inevitable result of their laws. They either have to conquer everybody or be hated by the whole human race. The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations and revolts against all masters, always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous, cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity.

H. G. Wells

The Jews looked for a special saviour, a Messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of David and Solomon and bringing the whole world at last under the firm but benevolent Jewish heel. Zionism is an expression of Jewish refusal to assimilate. The Jews have suffered. It is because they have regarded themselves as a chosen people.

A careful study of anti-Semitism prejudice and accusations might be of great value to many Jews who do not adequately realize the irritations they inflict.

Henry Ford

Jews have always controlled the business. The motion picture influence of the United States and Canada is exclusively under the control, moral and financial, of the Jewish manipulators of the public mind.

Charles Lindbergh

We are disturbed about the effect of the Jewish influence on our press, radio, and motion pictures. It may become very serious. Bolton Lewis told us of one instance where the Jewish advertising firms threatened to remove all their advertising from the mutual system if a certain feature were permitted to go on the air. The threat was powerful enough to have the feature removed.

The pressure for war is high and mounting. The people are opposed to it, but the administration seems to have the bit in its teeth and is hell-bent on its way to war. Most of the Jewish interests in the country are behind war, and they control a huge part of our press and radio and most of our motion pictures.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sufferance, which is the badge of the Jew, has made him, in these days, the ruler of the rulers of the earth.

Francisco Franco

Let us be under no illusion. The Jewish spirit, which was responsible for the alliance of large-scale capital with Marxism and was the driving force behind so many anti-Spanish revolutionary agreements, will not be got rid of in a day.

Henry Wallace

Truman was exasperated over Jewish pressure that he support Zionist rule over Palestine. President Truman expressed himself as being very much put out with the Jews. He said that, quote, "Jesus Christ couldn't please them when he was here on the earth, so how could anyone expect that I would have any luck", end quote. President Truman said he had no use for them and didn't care what happened to them.

Henry Adams

The Jewish question is really the most serious of our problems.