Winston Churchill Quote

'In war-time,' I said, 'truth is so precious she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.'


Discussion of Operation Overlord with Stalin at the Teheran Conference (November 30, 1943); in The Second World War, Volume V : Closing the Ring (1952), Chapter 21 (Teheran: The Crux), p. 338.


'In war-time,' I said, 'truth is so precious she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.'

'In war-time,' I said, 'truth is so precious she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.'

'In war-time,' I said, 'truth is so precious she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.'

'In war-time,' I said, 'truth is so precious she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.'