| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | 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). |
| SUBJECTS: | Prisons |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | |
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