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Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden
I can't believe I liked a quote from churchill.
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Don't be too quick on feeling bad. AFC altered it, as he said, but the phrase he was altering wasn't Churchill's. Churchill said it, but attributed it to someone else, as if it were a known phrase even in his time.
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t has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time;
And Churchill continued...
but there is the broad feeling in our country that the people should rule, and that public opinion expressed by all constitutional means, should shape, guide, and control the actions of Ministers who are their servants and not their masters.
So the oft repeated phrase is missing context.
https://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfs...democracy.html
https://richardlangworth.com/worst-form-of-government