Charles Henry Grosvenor Quotes
Figures won’t lie but liars will figure.
Charles Henry Grosvenor, 1833-1917, U. S. Congressman (Republican, OH), Quoted in Woods, American Sayings
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One classic example was the fact that in 2012 about one third of Republicans believed that President Obama was a Muslim when he was a devout Christian. The infamous lie had 3 grains of truth: Obama’s father was a Muslim. his middle name was an Islamic name. and he had lived and gone to school as a young boy in Indonesia, the largest Islamic country.
See Ben Franklin for an earlier similar sentiment {465143}.
Charles Henry Grosvenor was a multiple-term U.S. Representative from Ohio, as well as a brigade commander in the Union Army during the American Civil War.