Robert Welch

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

— Robert Welch

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

— Robert Welch

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alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.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

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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 Welch

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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 Welch

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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 Welch

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

— Robert Welch

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

— Robert Welch

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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 Welch

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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 Welch

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