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alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.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 W. Welch, Jr. Read Quote
For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction. Robert W. Welch, Jr. Read Quote
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. Read Quote
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 W. Welch, Jr. Read Quote
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. Read Quote
The American Republic was bound – is still bound – to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome. Robert W. Welch, Jr. Read Quote
Neither facts nor pictures seem to sink into our centers of feeling any more. Robert W. Welch, Jr. Read Quote
The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people. Robert W. Welch, Jr. Read Quote
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. Read Quote
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. Read Quote
