Quotes & Sayings About Democracy Winston Churchill

You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home
all the more powerful because forbidden
terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. — Winston S. Churchill

I have stated that a democracy is always two years behind the dictator. — Winston S. Churchill

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 for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
(Speech in the House of Commons, 11 November 1947) — Winston S. Churchill

One of the most important signs of the existence of a democracy is that when there is a knock at the door at 5 in the morning, one is completely certain that it is the milkman. — Winston Churchill

If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter. — Winston Churchill

Democracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the others are so much worse. — Winston Churchill

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper-no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of the point. — Winston Churchill

Democracy is the best form of the worst type of government — Winston Churchill

It is the people who control the Government, not the Government the
people. — Winston S. Churchill

Democracy means that when there's a knock in the door at 3 am, it's probably the milkman. — Winston Churchill

The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: China is a sea that salts all the waters that flow into it. Theres another Chinese saying about their country which is much more modernit dates only from the fourth century. This is the saying: The tail of China is large and will not be wagged. I like that one. The British democracy approves the principles of movable party heads and unwaggable national tails. It is due to the working of these important forces that I have the honour to be addressing you at this moment. — Winston Churchill

The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future. — Winston Churchill

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. — Winston S. Churchill

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others. — Winston S. Churchill

You know, the primary process itself is very confusing. But in the end, I guess I believe what Winston Churchill said, which is that democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others. And that phrase of his, which I always have previously thought to be kind of acute, more recently I've thought of it in this way, to say well, you know what, he's also saying it's the worst form of government - except for all of the others. — Geoffrey Cowan

This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost us the election, and yet if we were to have them killed, we would be the ones to go to jail. That's democracy for you! — Winston Churchill

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization. — Winston Churchill

I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. Trust the peoplethat was his message. — Winston Churchill

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. — Winston S. Churchill

Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have. — Winston Churchill

Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman. — Winston Churchill