Robert W. Welch, Jr. Quotes & Sayings

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”