Unattributed on democracy

Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

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

Winston Churchill1874–1965Speech in the House of Commons (11 November 1947), published in 206–07 The Official Report, House of Commons (5th Series), 11 November 1947, vol. 444, cc.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Aristotle384–322 BCPolitics, book IV, 1291.b34

• Government
• Liberty

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Aristotle384–322 BC