Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
40
AUTHOR:
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874–1965)
QUOTATION:
I am most anxious that in dealing with matters which every Member knows are extremely delicate matters, I should not use any phrase or expression which would cause offence to our friends and Allies on the Continent or across the Atlantic Ocean.
ATTRIBUTION:
WINSTON CHURCHILL, chancellor of the exchequer, remarks, House of Commons, December 10, 1924.—Parliamentary Debates (Commons), 5th series, vol. 179, col. 259 (1925).
