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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.   Churchill, Winston

Source: WINSTON CHURCHILL, speech, House of Commons, November 11, 1947.Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 18971963, ed. Robert Rhodes James, vol. 7, p. 7566 . · This quote is about uncategorised · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.


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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill KG OM CH TD FRS PC PC (Can) (30 November 1874 - 24 January 1965) was an English statesman and author, best known as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Well-known as an orator, strategist, and politician, Churchill was one of the most important leaders in modern British and world history. He won the 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature for his many books on English and world history. Sir Winston Churchill was voted the greatest-ever Briton in the 2002 BBC poll the 100 Greatest Britons.

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