[extropy-chat] No Joy in Mudville

[Emlyn]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 13:00:11 -0800 (PST), Adrian Tymes
<wingcat at pacbell.net> wrote:
> --- Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > At 10:34 AM 11/10/2004 -0800, Adrian Tymes wrote:
> > >I was quoting Winston Churchill.
> >
> > Well, no, you weren't. Churchill said something very
> > different, making a
> > general point rather than a national one. (And I
> > rather think that had he
> > wished to restrict his remark about democracy to a
> > single nation, it would
> > have been the United Kingdom, for all that he was
> > half American by parentage.)
> >
> > Damien Broderick
> > [what he actually said: "Democracy is the worst form
> > of government except
> > for all those others that have been tried."]
> 
> I stand corrected.  The national form is the only one
> I'd heard, and I'd heard it directly attributed to him
> many times.
> 

"Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others
that have been tried." - Winston Churchill

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