Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1525
AUTHOR:
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874–1965)
QUOTATION:
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.
ATTRIBUTION:
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).
