If you change "except for any of the others" to "except for all the others" you'd have a direct Churchill quote.

To be fair, he meant 'democracy' in a non-Athenian sense (selection of representatives by lot - trusting the gods to choose) - but if you read Xenophon's Anabasis, the Ten Thousand chose new leaders (after the Persians killed the current ones in a parlay) by acclimation (popular vote) not by lot.