Robert W. Welch, Jr.
Robert W. Welch, Jr.
Robert Henry Winborne Welch, Jr.was an American businessman, political activist, and author. He was independently wealthy following his retirement and used that wealth to sponsor anti-Communist causes. He co-founded the conservative group the John Birch Societyin 1958 and tightly controlled it until his death. He became a highly controversial target of criticism by liberals, as well as by some leading conservatives such as William F. Buckley, Jr...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth1 December 1899
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed.
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.
Neither facts nor pictures seem to sink into our centers of feeling any more.
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.
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 whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.