In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by…

Winston Churchill
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In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. ✨ Discussion of Operation Overlord with Stalin at the Teheran Conference November 30, 1943; in Winston Churchill: The Second World War, Volume V : Closing the Ring (1952), Chapter 21 (Teheran: The Crux), p. 338.
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