Robert W. Welch Jr. Quotes

There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy that did not commit suicide.

Our polity has fallen down a dark hole into a place that is far from the vision and values of those who founded this democracy.

Here are two ways by which every kind of government is destroyed; either by some accident that happens from without, or some evil that arises within itself. What the first will be is not always easy to foresee: but the latter is certain and determinate

All political institutions will end sooner or later. The question is when and how.

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

We have, essentially, a worthless democracy.

The government they devised was defective from the start.

The U.S. military will be stepping into a morass. Iraq presents as unpromising a breeding ground for democracy as any in the world. It has never really known democracy or even legitimate, centralized rule for any great duration.

Every government of the world has the seeds of its own destruction in itself.

Liberty is not wanting in popular (democratic) states; nay, they have rather too much of it, since it degenerates into licentiousness. Hence it is that they are ever tottering and weak. Intestine commotions, or foreign attacks, often throw them into consternation.

In 54 years of its existence, Pakistan has not been able to find a workable model of democracy

Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all societies eventually will.

There's no checklist of how democracies fail because they fail in different ways. Some of them fail because they break up and civil war breaks out... Often they fail because someone is elected to power who doesn't respect the rules of the democracy.

In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old age.

As John Adams said, all democracies will eventually self-destruct. We seem to be doing it very quickly.

When there is a parliamentarian crisis, the only solution in a democracy is early elections.

There's a serious and worrying return to the fall of democracy in Spain, and it's not just us who are realising that.

Democracy is becoming collateral damage in a world where global risks have been ignored or exacerbated by those with the power to act.

I think Sinn Fein remains the greatest threat to our democracy and our prosperity as a state.

Famine is about so much more than food: it is about a famine of education, democracy, health, transport, and so many other items. The food famine becomes a symptom of that vast failure.

Exporting this Western model of democracy in countries that don't want it or are not ready creates disasters.

When democracies don't deliver growth, alternatives seem more attractive.

Back in the 1950s, America set out to intervene in Syria, liberate the people from a corrupt elite, and bring about a new democracy. They did this with the best of intentions, but it led to disaster. And out of that disaster, the Assad regime rose to power.

It is possible for great nations to rot from within.