Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
417
AUTHOR:
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874–1965)
QUOTATION:
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
ATTRIBUTION:
WINSTON CHURCHILL, speech, House of Commons, November 11, 1947.—Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897–1963, ed. Robert Rhodes James, vol. 7, p. 7566 (1974).
