Winston Churchill Quotes
He occasionally stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.
Referring to British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin:
Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister (Conservative), Quoted in Metcalf, Modern Humorous Quotations, Viking, 1986
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Armstrong observed that the notion was not original with him but with Edmund Burke. See {610721}.
Some politicians have subsequently used the phrase. For example, see {625508} .
See Ben Franklin for an earlier similar sentiment {465143}.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Apart from two years between 1922 and 1924, Churchill was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1964 and represented a total of five constituencies. Ideologically an economic liberal and imperialist, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, as leader from 1940 to 1955. He was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924. Churchill was also well known for his military career and as a historian, painter and writer, and among his many awards was the Nobel Prize in Literature.
