JrRobert W Welch In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility. – Robert W Welch, Jr
JrRobert W Welch In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority. – Robert W Welch, Jr
JrRobert W Welch 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. – Robert W Welch, Jr
JrRobert W Welch 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. – Robert W Welch, Jr
JrRobert W Welch 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 W Welch, Jr
JrRobert W Welch 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 W Welch, Jr
JrRobert W Welch Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy. – Robert W Welch, Jr
JrRobert W Welch For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without enough alarms being sounded to be heard and heeded. – Robert W Welch, Jr
JrRobert W Welch 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. – Robert W Welch, Jr
JrRobert W Welch 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 W Welch, Jr
JrRobert W Welch 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. – Robert W Welch, Jr
JrRobert W Welch The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people. – Robert W Welch, Jr
