Winston Churchill1874–1965The quotations of
Winston Churchill
British statesman, soldier and writer
1874–1965
90 quotes, most often on War & Peace, Politics and Clever Jabs.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
‘In war-time,’ I said, ‘truth is so precious she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.’
Discussion of Operation Overlord with Stalin at the Teheran Conference (November 30, 1943); in The Second World War, Volume V: Closing the Ring (1952), Chapter 21 (Teheran: The Crux), p. 338There are a lot of lies going around…and half of them are true.
- On Stanley Baldwin, as cited in Churchill by Himself (2008), Ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs, p. 322
