Truth Churchill Quotes & Sayings

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. — Winston S. Churchill

What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth? — Winston Churchill

The Russian Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people. — Winston Churchill

Men often stumble onto the truth but then quickly dust themselves off and hurry away. — Winston Churchill

The truth deserves a bodyguard of lies. — Winston S. Churchill

People stumble over the truth from time to time,
but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. — Winston S. Churchill

Truth! why shall every wretch of letters Dare to speak truth against his betters! Let ragged virtue stand aloof, Nor mutter accents of reproof; Let ragged wit a mute become, When wealth and power would have her dumb. — Charles Churchill

Churchill once remarked that "a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on," and — Ali H. Soufan

Occasionally a man stumbles over the truth. Most dust themselves off and continue walking as though nothing had happened. — Winston S. Churchill

The truth is heavy, therefore few care to carry it. — Winston Churchill

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. — Winston S. Churchill

Truth is the best defense. — Ward Churchill

The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time. But the soul of man thus held in trance, or frozen in a long night, can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where, and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life. — Winston S. Churchill

In war, truth is often the first casualty. — Winston Churchill

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 unceasing for millions of years before armaments were invented or armies organized. Indeed, the lucid intervals of peace and order only occurred in human history after armaments in the hands of strong governments have come into being, and civilization in every age has been nursed only in cradles guarded by superior weapons and superior discipline. — Winston Churchill

I let the argument rip healthily between the departments. This is a very good way to finding out the truth. — Winston Churchill

The truth is so precious," Churchill told Stalin, "that she should always be protected by a bodyguard of lies. — William Manchester

Don't be afraid to borrow if someone else has said it well. Winston Churchill said, The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. That's so well said. You could stay up all night and not think of that. — Jim Rohn

Winston Churchill said 'In war time, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies'. Any book called The Truth should therefore have one. — Terry Pratchett

Man will occasionally stumble upon the truth but most times he will pick himself up and continue on. — Winston S. Churchill

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 and decay, but in some supreme exertion for freedom, for right and for truth. — Winston Churchill

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. — Winston S. Churchill

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. — Winston Churchill

Emma's eyes were instantly withdrawn; and she sat silently meditating, in a fixed attitude, for a few minutes. A few minutes were sufficient for making her acquainted with her own heart. A mind like hers, once opening to suspicion, made rapid progress. She touched - she admitted - she acknowledged the whole truth. Why was it so much worse that Harriet should be in love with Mr. Knightley, than with Frank Churchill? Why was the evil so dreadfully increased by Harriet's having some hope of a return? It darted through her, with the speed of an arrow, that Mr. Knightley must marry no one but herself! — Jane Austen

Men sometimes stumble over the truth, but often pick themselves up and hurry off as though nothing had happened — Winston S. Churchill

In war, the truth must be guarded by a body guard of lies. — Winston Churchill

A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life. — Winston Churchill

When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded with a frown, must have some solemn proof to pass her down. — Charles Churchill

Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened. — Winston Churchill

There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth. — Ward Churchill

Everyone stumbles over the truth from time to time, but most people pick themselves up and hurry off as though nothing ever happened. - SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL — Gary S. Bobroff

Plato used the dialogue format because the exchange of views, the posing and answering of questions, showed that understanding is a living, dynamic process. He distrusted writing because the settled character of the written word makes it look as if truth can be fixed and made to stand still. It is worth remembering that this greatest advocate of the objective reality of truth also believed that our access to that truth was sustained in reasoned discussion. — John Churchill, 1st Duke Of Marlborough

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 government mean something, to consult together. Let me, then, speak in truth and earnestness while time remains. — Winston Churchill

Story is morally neutral. It can express profound truth or propaganda. The two greatest political storytellers of the 20th Century were Winston Churchill and Adolph Hitler. Because storytelling is a form of persuasive jujitsu, and because world is full of black belt storytellers, the corporate leader has to train both his offensive and defensive moves — Robert McKee

When satire flies abroad on falsehood's wing, Short is her life, and impotent her sting; But when to truth allied, the wound she gives Sinks deep, and to remotest ages lives. — Charles Churchill

Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes. — Winston S. Churchill

The person of truth must be covered with bodyguards of lies. — Winston Churchill

Thr truth is inconvertible.
Malice may attack it
and ignorance may deride it,
but in the end,
there it is ... — Winston Churchill