Robert W. Welch Jr. Quotes

This administration in Washington that's in power now clearly believes that government is not only the answer to every need, but it's the most qualified to make the most central decisions for every American in every area.

Once you put yourself in the hands of the government, you could end up in Utah.

Government has ever been careful to hold a high hand over the education of the people. They know, better than anyone else, that their power is based almost entirely on the school. Hence, they monopolize it more and more.

The era of big government may be over, but the era of regulation through litigation has just begun.

When you are dealing with the United States Government and the Department of Justice you have to always be looking over your shoulder.

We want government to control business and industry enough to protect us as consumers from being cheated, but we oppose government interference in private enterprise. We want government to ensure standards and equality in education, but many of us balk at the idea of a government-imposed curriculum.

We may not always recognize it, but government plays a bigger role in our lives than any other single person or institution. We spend nearly half of our lives working to pay for it. Children spend more time in government schools than they do with their parents. Birth, death, marriage, every area of our lives feels the influence of government.

War is just one more big government program.

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.

No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government shall do everything and the idea that government shall do nothing.

It is the work of the state to think for the people and plan for the people.

People who believe in governmental regulation and intervention in life—for them government is a church.

Just because there is a market failure, doesn’t mean there is a government solution.

Every business action of the individual is supervised and hedged about with red tape and paternal restrictions.

Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by teaching disrespect for home and parents.

Can government really be active and, at the same time, limited? History suggests otherwise.

… socialism is not a system for redistributing wealth but a system to control people and competitors

Once the government starts forbidding things, then someone will come around the corner saying, “I’ve got it.”

This is a country that historically has had very little central government.

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it

In 1835 Alexis de Tocqueville expressed concern that America’s democratic republic might be vulnerable to a new despotism that seduces citizens into surrendering their freedom in exchange for relief “from the care of thinking and all the trouble of living.” Democratic-socialism is a seductive mutation of despotism in which the democratic majority delegates control of more and more resources to government overseers.

I start with a concern about the growth of federal government. I start with a perspective concerned about the growth of that power, and containing it within the bounds of the Constitution.

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

What one has created by regulation, one could address by regulation.