Quote by Winston Churchill
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on. – Winston Churchill

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It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. – Winston Churchill

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Government
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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. – Winston Churchill

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No one can earn a million dollars honestly. – William Jennings Bryan

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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. – Slovenian Proverb

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The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall off his own bluff. – Ambrose Bierce, Epigram. (c.1906) Quoted by Ralph Alfred Habas, Morals for Moder

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Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Attacks on a politicians identity – questioning Romneys religion, say, or Obamas birthplace – tend to come when an opponent is desperate and cant sell himself. – Jon Meacham

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You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best. – Andrew Carnegie

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If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are. – James Allen

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The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy slope; big stars were shining over the silent fields; here and there the dark pointed firs stood up with snow powdering their branches and the wind whistling through them. – L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

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