1760s, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law (1765)
“Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.”
“To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.”
Remarks at a White House luncheon (26 June 1954)
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,
Has been falsely attributed to Otto von Bismarck.
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.
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Source: https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/quotes/quotes-falsely-attributed/
“We are not indeed obliged always to speak what we think, but we must always think what we speak.”
Source: A Mother's Advice to Her Son, 1726, p. 149
“The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist.”
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Nature
Source: Pendragon Before The War: Book Two Of The Travelers (Pendragon
Source: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=346794326803029&set=pb.100044173926915.-2207520000.&type=3
“Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.”
Source: The Russian Revolution (1918), Chapter Six, "The Problem of Dictatorship"
Context: Freedom only for the supporters of the government, only for the members of one party – however numerous they may be – is no freedom at all. Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. Not because of any fanatical concept of “justice” but because all that is instructive, wholesome and purifying in political freedom depends on this essential characteristic, and its effectiveness vanishes when “freedom” becomes a special privilege.
Address to the United States Congress (13 November 1945), quoted in The Times (14 November 1945), p. 4. Aneurin Bevan said to Attlee afterwards: "That was a noble speech. I felt very proud", quoted in John Campbell, Nye Bevan and the Mirage of British Socialism (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988), p. 187.
1940s
