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Second Week, First Day, Part iv. Compare: "Out of the jaws of death", William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act iii. Sc. 4.
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“To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.”
Remarks at a White House luncheon (26 June 1954) <br class="br">Quoted in Churchill Urges Patience in Coping with Red Dangers, The New York Times, June 27, 1954 http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00A10FE3458117A93C5AB178DD85F408585F9, <br class="br">Has been falsely attributed to Otto von Bismarck. <br class="br">But Churchill’s official biographer, Sir Martin Gilbert, speaking of this quote, noted that Churchill actually said, "Meeting jaw to jaw is better than war." Four years later, during a visit to Australia, Harold Macmillan said the words usually—and wrongly—attributed to Churchill: “Jaw, jaw is better than war, war.” Credit: Harold Macmillan. <br class="br">Post-war years (1945–1955) <br class="br">Source: https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/quotes/quotes-falsely-attributed/
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