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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
the young people
flock to the gop when they acquire a speck of wisdom. that’s nothing new. that cycle is as old as the republic. churchill said, if you’re young and you’re not a democrat, you don’t have a soul. if you’re older and you’re not a republican, you don’t have a brain.
think he said that.
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I always heard it as: ‘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.’
BUT
There is no record of anyone hearing Churchill say this. Paul Addison of Edinburgh University made 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!