Winston Churchill Quotes
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
See {115604} for a similar sentiment from England.
The claims made by some Republicans were so absurd and extreme that the whole Party was tarred. Some even claimed that the legislation required “Death Panels” which would decide on which elderly people would be treated and which should be abandoned to no die with no treatment when there was no such thing even proposed by anyone, much less passed in the legislation.
This sentiment was apparently first expressed by the English Calvinist Minister, Charles Spurgeon, 1834-1892.
See Ben Franklin for an earlier similar sentiment {465143}.
Ingersoll was considered to be the greatest orator and political thinker of his day, but his overt atheistic views curtailed his elected political career.
He was referring to the George W. Bush and his behavior on the Iraq War.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Apart from two years between 1922 and 1924, Churchill was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1964 and represented a total of five constituencies. Ideologically an economic liberal and imperialist, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, as leader from 1940 to 1955. He was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924. Churchill was also well known for his military career and as a historian, painter and writer, and among his many awards was the Nobel Prize in Literature.
