In the best days of our republic America... by Robert Welch

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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.

- Robert Welch

Other quotes by Robert Welch

Government

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.

- Robert Welch

Years People

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

Americans Thinking First

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

Country

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

- Robert Welch

Fortune

The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed.

- Robert Welch

Government People

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

- Robert Welch

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