American - Businessman | December 1, 1899 - January 6, 1985
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 W. Welch, Jr.
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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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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.
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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.
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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alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.
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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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The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.
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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.
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The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.
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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.
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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.
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