Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1861
AUTHOR:
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874–1965)
QUOTATION:
Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe.
ATTRIBUTION:
WINSTON CHURCHILL, chancellor’s address, University of Bristol, Bristol, England, July 2, 1938.—Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897–1963, ed. Robert Rhodes James, vol. 6, p. 5991 (1974).
