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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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1525 |
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AUTHOR:
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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874–1965) |
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QUOTATION:
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Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilisation. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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Prime Minister WINSTON CHURCHILL, letter to Home Secretary Herbert Morrison, November 21, 1943.—Churchill, Closing the Ring (vol. 5 of The Second World War), p. 679 (1951). |
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SUBJECTS:
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Prisons |
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