January 27, 2006

The Churchill Wit

From page 64 of my favorite Little Red Book:

Most of all, I shall refrain from making any prediction upon the future. It is a month ago that I remarked upon the long silence of Herr Hitler, a remark which apparently provoked him to make a speech in which he told the German people that Moscow would fall in a few days.

That shows, as everyone I am sure will agree, how much wiser he would have been to go on keeping his mouth shut.

House of Commons
November, 1941

Posted by Terry Oglesby at January 27, 2006 10:00 AM
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