• In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

    Winston Churchill: 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.