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Biography - Winston Churchill:

British politician and statesman.
Born: 1874 - Died: 1965
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
United Kingdom

Democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
La démocratie est le pire système de gouvernement, à l'exception de tous les autres qui ont pu être expérimentés dans l'histoire.

German
Demokratie ist die schlechteste aller Regierungsformen - abgesehen von all den anderen Formen, die von Zeit zu Zeit ausprobiert worden sind.




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Quotes for: Democracy


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Quotes for: Democracy


Amongst democratic nations, each new generation is a new people.





Citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control.





The real democratic progress is not to lower the level of the elite toward that of the crowd, but to raise that of the crowd toward the elite.





My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.





What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.





Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.











Quotes

Winston Churchill also said...


Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.





The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.





Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.





The price of greatness is responsibility.





Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.





For myself I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else.












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