Americanism's standard-bearer: Robert Welch launched an unprecedented movement to expose and rout the worldwide collectivist conspiracy.(The Founder)

 
   How often has public calamity been 
   arrested on the very brink of ruin by 
   the seasonable energy of a single 
   man? ... One vigorous mind without of 
   rice, without situation, without public 
   functions of any kind ... I say one 
   such man confiding in the aid of 
   God, and full of just reliance in his 
   own fortitude, vigor, enterprise, and 
   perseverance, would first draw to 
   him some few like himself, and then 
   that multitudes hardly thought to be 
   in existence, would appear and 
   troop about him. 
 
   --Edmund Burke 

To those familiar with the life, words, and works of Robert Welch, it must seem that Mr. Burke's lines above, though ...