23 Quotes by Robert W. Welch, Jr.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.