[extropy-chat] No Joy in Mudville

Adrian Tymes wingcat at pacbell.net
Wed Nov 10 21:00:11 UTC 2004


--- 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.



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