Langworth contained an entry for the quotation. The 2013 Kindle edition of the important compilation “Churchill By Himself” by Churchill quotation expert Richard M. Some people’s idea of is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage. The word “free speech” was bracketed to signal that the editors had performed a substitution: 1993, The New International Dictionary of Quotations, Selected by Margaret Miner and Hugh Rawson, (Second Edition), Topic: Free Speech, Quote, A Dutton Book: Penguin Books, New York. … Continue reading The 1993 reference “The New International Dictionary of Quotations” included an entry for the quotation. The slightly inaccurate modern version replaces “it” with the referent “free speech” to create a more compact and self-contained expression.īelow are additional selected citations in chronological order. The original remark recorded in the Hansard used the pronoun “it”.
Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage. So we must beware of a tyranny of opinion which tries to make only one side of a question the one which may be heard. That is to say, it has flourished so long as there is full freedom of speech, free elections and free institutions. Indeed Parliamentary democracy has flourished under party government. Emphasis in excerpts added by QI: 1943 October 13, Hansard, United Kingdom Parliament, Commons, Coalmining Situation, Speaking: The Prime Minister (Winston Churchill), HC Deb, volume 392, cc920-1012. Quote Investigator: A closely matching statement was spoken by Winston Churchill in the U.K. I cannot tell whether this was really said by the famous British Prime Minister. Some people’s idea of free speech is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.
According to a Facebook meme Winston Churchill supposedly said: Dear Quote Investigator: Genuine free speech entails disagreement and debate it is never a one-sided notion.
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