Robert W. Welch Jr. Quotes

This is a movement. This is not Trump. This is not anything. This is a movement. Remember, it is a movement. We used to say silent majority. It's not a silent majority, it's really a noisy majority.

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.

Chavez is not Chavez. Chavez is the people! And the people will not be stopped.

… the most sacred right [revolution] to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better.

In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, and when it strikes, ... it strikes with incredible emphasis. Those are the rare occasions when a national will emerges from the scattered, specialized, or indifferent blocs of voters who ordinarily elect the politicians. Those are for good or evil the great occasions in a nation's history.

Americans have a tendency to exalt the concept of a popular uprising.

There is not a revolution that succeeded in a few months. It takes years, even decades, to fulfill its goals. I am very hopeful because I trust the revolution and feel nobody can really conquer a nation that has decided to be united and to fight, and we decided to fight. The revolution is there, inside the Egyptians by the millions.

When you talk about Social Security, it's not just enough to say, we're looking at you, this really matters. It's the fact that a million Americans think it matters. Oh, wait, it's 2 million Americans think it matters. No, it's 4 million Americans. It's 6 million, wait, it's 10 million, it's 50 million Americans who care about this. That's how we're going to make change.

Change has no constituency and a perceived revolution has even less.

Great political and social changes begin to be possible as soon as men are not afraid to risk their lives.

The essential mark of the agitator is the high value he places on the emotional response of the public. Whether he attacks or defends social institutions is a secondary matter.

Something is stirring in the hearts and minds of the people.

The people in this country have always been afraid of power. Now, maybe the powerful are becoming a little afraid of the people.

The Revolution in America signaled the beginning of a new political era, that this revolution would necessarily determine an important progress in world civilization and that before long, it would cause great changes in the social order which then existed in Europe.

There is no example in history of a revolutionary movement involving such gigantic masses being so bloodless.

Popular movements respond to the ups and downs of the headlines, to some extent

Nations are liable to various revolutions in the state of their minds, and extent of their knowledge, as well as in their power and wealth ….

I am the people — the mob — the crowd — the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?

The people weren't quite ready for a socialist production system.

Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action.

Revolutions are not made, they come.

You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action.

There are times, perhaps once every thirty years, when there is a sea-change in politics. It then does not matter what you say or what you do. There is a shift in what the public wants and what it approves of.

Why does the guerrilla fighter fight? We must come to the inevitable conclusion that the guerrilla fighter is a social reformer, that he takes up arms responding to the angry protest of the people against their oppressors, and that he fights in order to change the social system that keeps all his unarmed brothers in ignominy and misery.