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

— Robert Welch

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Neither facts nor pictures seem to sink into our centers of feeling any more. ↗

— Robert Welch

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The difference is that for a soundly conceived and solidly endowed republic it takes a great deal longer for those seeds to germinate and the plants to grow. ↗

— Robert Welch

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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. ↗

— Robert Welch

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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. ↗

— Robert Welch

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Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government. ↗

— William Weld

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Liberals often don't see the problems, and conservatives don't see the promise, of government. ↗

— William Weld

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Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

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I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

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I knew nothing of the real life of a musician, but I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds of people, playing my accordion. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

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