Robert Henry Winborne Welch Jr. Quotes

• In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.

  Robert Henry Winborne Welch Jr.

  Topics in Democracy, Power

  Tags in Simple

• And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic.

  Robert Henry Winborne Welch Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Forget, Thinking, Start

• 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alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.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 Henry Winborne Welch Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Almost, Reading

• For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction.

  Robert Henry Winborne Welch Jr.

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Republic

• 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 Henry Winborne Welch Jr.

  Topics in Democracy

• 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 Henry Winborne Welch Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Enough

• 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 Henry Winborne Welch Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Beautiful, Today, Whole

• 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 Henry Winborne Welch Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thought, Government, System

• 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 Henry Winborne Welch Jr.

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Government, State

• His impact would have been of transient memory and comparatively small importance, had not that impact occurred at a time and in a way to make it supply particulars from which momentous generalizations can properly be projected.

  Robert Henry Winborne Welch Jr.

  Topics in Memory

  Tags in Small, Importance

• 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 Henry Winborne Welch Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Best, Without, Rich

• Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy.

  Robert Henry Winborne Welch Jr.

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Write, Newspapers

• 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 Henry Winborne Welch Jr.

  Topics in Power

  Tags in American, Purpose

• 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 Henry Winborne Welch Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, System, Tax

• Neither facts nor pictures seem to sink into our centers of feeling any more.

  Robert Henry Winborne Welch Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Feeling, Facts, Pictures

• The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can… become very onerous indeed.

  Robert Henry Winborne Welch Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Become, Fortune, Indeed

• 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 Henry Winborne Welch Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Grow, Difference, Takes

• The American Republic was bound – is still bound – to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome.

  Robert Henry Winborne Welch Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Come, Still

• The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they’re letting the worst patients run the place.

  Robert Henry Winborne Welch Jr.

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Place

• The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.

  Robert Henry Winborne Welch Jr.

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Place

Robert Henry Winborne Welch Jr. (23)

Birth:	1st December, 1899
Death:	6th January, 1985
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Businessman

About

Robert Henry Winborne Welch Jr. was an American businessman, political activist and author. He was independently wealthy following his retirement and used that wealth to sponsor anti-communist causes. He co-founded the conservative group the John Birch Society in 1958 and tightly controlled it until his death.

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