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> The best defense of democracy is Churchill's: democracy is the worst form of Government except for all the rest. So Two Cheers for Democracy: one because it
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> The best defense of democracy is Churchill's: democracy is the worst form of Government except for all the rest.
So Two Cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. Two cheers are quite enough: there is no occasion to give three. Only Love the Beloved Republic deserves that.
- E.M. Forster, "What I Believe", 1939, from a collection bearing the name Two Cheers for Democracy