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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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1554 |
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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 is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling one’s pulse and taking one’s temperature. I see that a speaker at the week-end said that this was a time when leaders should keep their ears to the ground. All I can say is that the British nation will find it very hard to look up to leaders who are detected in that somewhat ungainly posture. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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Prime Minister WINSTON CHURCHILL, speech, House of Commons, September 30, 1941.—Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897–1963, ed. Robert Rhodes James, vol. 6, p. 6495 (1974). |
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SUBJECTS:
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Public opinion |
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