Quote#Death
No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to…
Quote byDavid Lloyd George · 1863–1945
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Prime Minister, Address, conference of trade union delegates, London (18 January 1918), in The Times (19 January 1918), p. 8. Reported in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989), p. 252, no. 1,340.
English (original)
No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it....My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under.
— David Lloyd George
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