Words matter. These are the best Robert W. Welch, Jr. Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can… become very onerous indeed.
The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they’re letting the worst patients run the place.
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alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.
Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy.
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.
In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States.
The American Republic was bound – is still bound – to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome.
In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule.
Neither facts nor pictures seem to sink into our centers of feeling any more.
And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction.
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.
It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system.
For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction.
The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.
