Half-Truth Quotes
See Ben Franklin for an earlier similar sentiment {465143}.
See {115604} for a similar sentiment from England.
One classic example was the fact that in 2012 about one third of Republicans believed that President Obama was a Muslim when he was a devout Christian. The infamous lie had 3 grains of truth: Obama’s father was a Muslim. his middle name was an Islamic name. and he had lived and gone to school as a young boy in Indonesia, the largest Islamic country.
Haig was generally not terribly eloquent but he was very well read. “Terminological inexactitude” was coined by Winston Churchill. See {625509} .