A Quote by Robert W. Welch, Jr.

For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

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Robert W. Welch, Jr.
American - Businessman
December 1, 1899 - January 6, 1985

Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution.

Edward Somers

Truth has within it the seeds of its own victory; Lies have within them the seeds of their own destruction.

Randall Terry

A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.

Charles Caleb Colton

Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented.

Mark Twain

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.

William Inge

The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights, and are the only instruments which can be used for their destruction. And certainly they would never consent to be so used were they not deceived. To avoid this they should be instructed to a certain degree.

Thomas Jefferson

The movement of abstract art... bears within itself at almost every point the mark of the changing material and psychological conditions surrounding modern culture.

Meyer Schapiro

One of the oldest secrets of alchemy is that every living thing, from the most complex creatures right down to the simplest leaf, carries the seeds of its creation within itself.

Michael Scott

Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good, bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote. The gloomy soul aggravates misfortune, while a cheerful smile often dispels those mists that portend a storm.

Lydia Sigourney

The rule of the bourgeois democrats [in pre-federal Germany], from the very first, will carry within it the seeds of its own destruction

Karl Marx

I have indeed two great measures at heart, without which no republic can maintain itself in strength: 1. That of general education, to enable every man to judge for himself what will secure or endanger his freedom. 2. To divide every county into hundreds, of such size that all the children of each will be within reach of a central school in it.

Thomas Jefferson

There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change.

Ovid

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

Niels Bohr

Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.

C. V. Wedgwood

San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller within immortal. That is the whole truth.

William Saroyan

A heart-felt prayer is not recitation with the lips. It is a yearning from within which expresses itself in every word, every act, nay every thought of people.

Mahatma Gandhi

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