Robert W. Welch, Jr. Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.”