All Robert Welch Quotes
In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.
Robert Welch
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We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, which is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted most to prevent.
Robert Welch
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The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.
Robert Welch
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The difference is that for a soundly conceived and solidly endowed republic it takes a great deal longer for those seeds to germinate and the plants to grow.
Robert Welch
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There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own.
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Neither facts nor pictures seem to sink into our centers of feeling any more.
Robert Welch
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The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.
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In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most thought was an elaborate system of checks and balances.
Robert Welch
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The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome.
Robert Welch
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All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.
Robert Welch
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The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed.
Robert Welch
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We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives.
Robert Welch
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Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy.
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For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige.
Robert Welch
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For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction.
Robert Welch
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