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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 WelchRobert Welch
––American businessman, political activist, co-founder of the John Birch Society (1899-1985)

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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 WelchRobert Welch
––American businessman, political activist, co-founder of the John Birch Society (1899-1985)

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"For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction."
Robert WelchRobert Welch
––American businessman, political activist, co-founder of the John Birch Society (1899-1985)

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"In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority."
Robert WelchRobert Welch
––American businessman, political activist, co-founder of the John Birch Society (1899-1985)

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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 WelchRobert Welch
––American businessman, political activist, co-founder of the John Birch Society (1899-1985)

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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 WelchRobert Welch
––American businessman, political activist, co-founder of the John Birch Society (1899-1985)

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"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."
Robert WelchRobert Welch
––American businessman, political activist, co-founder of the John Birch Society (1899-1985)

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"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."
Robert WelchRobert Welch
––American businessman, political activist, co-founder of the John Birch Society (1899-1985)

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"The real freedom of any individual can always be measured by the amount of responsibility which he must assume for his own welfare and security."
Robert WelchRobert Welch
––American businessman, political activist, co-founder of the John Birch Society (1899-1985)

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