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Lying Quotes by Winston Churchill
- A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
- Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
- There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
- From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie all the capitals…
- Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood…
- If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies, choking in his…
- In war, the truth must be guarded by a body guard of lies.
- I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.
- A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.
- Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit…
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