Robert W. Welch, Jr. Government Quotations

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.

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.

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.

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.

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