"And for well over a hundred years our……" — Robert W. Welch, Jr.
"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."
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22 Quotes by Robert W. Welch, Jr.
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And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start…
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It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income…
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The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.
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Neither facts nor pictures seem to sink into our centers of feeling any more.
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All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages…
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The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed.
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For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations…
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There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way…
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In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave…
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The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.
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For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction.
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The difference is that for a soundly conceived and solidly endowed republic it takes a great deal longer for those…
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the…
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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
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Jeans represent democracy in fashion.
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I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings…
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Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of…
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Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and…
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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers,…
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