On Apr 11, 10:35*am, "Tom Littleton" wrote:
"David LaCourse" wrote in message

news:2010041112170011272-dplacourse@aolcom...

"Show me a young conservative and I'll show you a someone with no heart..
Show me an old liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains."

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Sir W. C.

I'd love to know the real provenence of this one. I've seen it cited, in
variations, to Churchill, P.J.O'Rourke, and a few others. The common
variation is: If you're young and not a Democrat, you have no heart. If
you're old and not a Republican, you have no brain.
As with most such stuff, it's funny, but completely off the mark......some
of the smartest liberals I've ever known came to that position late in life.
On the other hands, I've seen keen support for a conservative position by
young men in my lifetime.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Tom

Another misattributed quote. See http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill
under "Misattributed Quotes".

It wasn't Churchill at all, and, in fact, one of the sources in the
above article (reproduced below) says it is unlikely Churchill would
have said any such thing.

From the above article, the quote actually is " 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.
According to research by Mark T. Shirey, citing Nice Guys Finish
Seventh: False Phrases, Spurious Sayings, and Familiar Misquotations
by Ralph Keyes, 1992, this quote was first uttered by mid-nineteenth
century historian and statesman François Guizot when he observed, Not
to be a republican at 20 is proof of want of heart; to be one at 30 is
proof of want of head. This quote has been attributed variously to
George Bernard Shaw, Benjamin Disraeli, Otto von Bismarck, and others.
Furthermore, the Churchill Centre, on its Falsely Attributed
Quotations page, states "there is no record of anyone hearing
Churchill say this." Paul Addison of Edinburgh University is quoted as
stating: "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?""

Tim Lysyk