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

Winston Churchill

Speech to the House of Commons, 11 November 1947

Churchill introduced it with "it has been said", so he was passing along an older quip rather than coining it. It is still a favourite defence of democracy's flaws.

Source: Wikiquote

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