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Truth Quotes by Winston Churchill
- You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
- A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
- Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
- It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
- 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…
- What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth?
- A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.
- In war, truth is often the first casualty.
- Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened.
- If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow process of dispersion…
- In war, the truth must be guarded by a body guard of lies.
- I let the argument rip healthily between the departments. This is a very good way to finding out the truth.
- This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and…
- The stations of uncensored expression are closing down; the lights are going out; but there is still time for those to whom freedom and parliamentary…
- Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
- We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.
- Most people stumble over the truth, now and then, but they usually manage to pick themselves up and go on, anyway.
- A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. -Winston Churchill
- The truth surrounded by a bodyguard of lies
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