Robert Welch Quotes (30 Quotes)

Neither facts nor pictures seem to sink into our centers of feeling any more.

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.

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.

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.

It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system.

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

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

To avoid further litigation, I thought It would be best to purchase the area.

In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule.

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.

We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, which is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted most to prevent.

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alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.

Because of the result of reaching out to the audience, I'm a better person. I love to perform.

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.

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

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

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.

To make more informed decisions, companies need accurate population counts -- especially in the Gulf Coast markets and in markets now inhabited by an estimated 500,000 displaced people. Our clients specifically asked for estimates on the regions impacted by the Hurricanes and those impacted by the influx of Hurricane evacuees. In fact, this release has been the most highly anticipated version since the product launched in 2001.

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.

His impact would have been of transient memory and comparatively small importance, had not that impact occurred at a time and in a way to make it supply particulars from which momentous generalizations can properly be projected.

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.

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

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.

Making profitable business decisions is the goal. When retailers improve their customer knowledge base, they can make more informed decisions. And smarter decisions support higher profits.

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

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

If a store is surrounded by people who watch their diets, exercise and don't smoke, then it makes sense to give those customers healthier food choices than the traditional convenience store menu selection.

The answers may surprise many retailers. It's easy to make assumptions about consumers or just blindly follow trends but it's smarter to get the facts.

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.

By looking at the issue from new angles, we found that each household has a unique set of attitudes that influence its residents' buying habitsincluding everything from their physical activity levels to their propensity to support a particular political candidate. For example, one household may be the first to purchase new technologies, while another may wait years to adopt new technologies. We developed a unique new system to measure consumers' wide range of attitudes.