On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 10:25:41AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > That may be true, but I am driven to quote Benjamin Franklin here, > with "Democracy is a very bad form of government, but all the others are > so much worse."
You're thinking of Winston Churchill: "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." See also https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin#Misattributed