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As with most famous quotes, it's wrong and can't be traced back to the person it's attributed to. According to the Churchill Centre:
"Conservative by the time you're 35"
"If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain." There is no record of anyone hearing Churchill say this. Paul Addison of Edinburgh University makes this comment: "Surely Churchill can't have used the words attributed to him. He'd been a Conservative at 15 and a Liberal at 35! And would he have talked so disrespectfully of Clemmie, who is generally thought to have been a lifelong Liberal?"
posted by
VanArsdale
on April 3, 2009 at 12:48 AM
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Associating age with the quality of heart & brain is itself brain-dead!
posted by
ash_pradhan
on February 24, 2009 at 8:12 PM
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