Sir Winston Churchill Quote

"You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. Yet in their hearts there is unspoken – unspeakable! – fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts! Words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home, all the more powerful because they are forbidden. These terrify them. A little mouse – a little tiny mouse! – of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic."

By:	Sir Winston Churchill (more quotes by Sir Winston Churchill or books by/about Sir Winston Churchill)
	(1874-1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1940-1945, 1951-1955)
Categories:	Conscience, Despotism, Fear, Free Thought, Power, Press, Speech, Tyranny
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