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Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in thi

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 others that have been tried from time to time. – Winston Churchill

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The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst. – Winston Churchill

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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. – Winston Churchill

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The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government. – Henry Ward Beecher

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The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes. – Calvin Coolidge

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