"One woman who managed to corner him, the story runs, said in a treacly gushing voice: "Doesn't it thrill you, Mr. Churchill, to know that every time you make a speech the hall is packed to overflowing?" "It is quite flattering", Mr. Churchill replied, "but whenever I feel this way I always remember that if instead of making a political speech I was being hanged, the crowd would be twice as big"."
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Winston Churchill, remark on a transatlantic tour. Norman McGowan, My Years with Churchill, p. 138 (1958).
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