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"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill
by taylorwc 10y ago
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
- Winston Churchill
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- DonaldFisk 10y agoHe also said, "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." "Perhaps the late Lord Attlee was right," she [Mrs Thatcher] observed, "when he said that the referendum was a device of dictators and demagogues."
- pessimizer 10y agoObligatory horrific Churchill quote: "I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place."