| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | 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).
The subject was inter-Allied debts. |
| SUBJECTS: | Allies |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | |
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