Kent Johnson wrote: >> Wikiquote is nice. I missed it because I googled for Mark Twain and parts of >> the Churchill quote -- for that I'm now convinced it is as wikiquote gives >> a slightly longer excerpt and the date and location of the speech (November >> 11, 1947, in the House of Commons). > > Interesting that in the quote on wikiquote, Churchill indicates that the > sentiment is not original > with him: > "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." > > Note the "it has been said"...
Though this may be a tricky style issue. I don't know whether some parts of the country would have cited only the first part, discrediting Mr Churchill. In Germany, a sentence like this would be readily welcomed by the "BILD" newspaper... Reinhold -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list