This slanderous remark was attributed to Churchill, and there is a theory circulating that Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels invented it to depict Churchill as a liar.
• However, this is most likely false, as variants of this quote in German first surfaced in 1946 without being attributed to Churchill. It wasn't until 1980 that the quote was attributed to Churchill in German for the first time.https://falschzitate.blogspot.com/2017/09/ich-traue-keiner-statistik-die-ich.html
• In German: »Ich glaube nur der Statistik, die ich selbst gefälscht habe«
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I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself.

— Winston Churchill

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself." in the context of "This slanderous remark was attributed to Churchill, and there is a theory circulating that Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels invented it to depict Churchill as a liar.
• However, this is most likely false, as variants of this quote in German first surfaced in 1946 without being attributed to Churchill. It wasn't until 1980 that the quote was attributed to Churchill in German for the first time.https://falschzitate.blogspot.com/2017/09/ich-traue-keiner-statistik-die-ich.html
• In German: »Ich glaube nur der Statistik, die ich selbst gefälscht habe«" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

Source: Wikiquote: "Winston Churchill" (Misattributed) The 'What it means' explanation text was generated by Google Gemini Flash (accessed February 05, 2026). https://gemini.google.com/app

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Winston Churchill

About Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill KG OM CH TD FRS PC (November 30, 1874 – January 24, 1965) was a British statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was a Sandhurst-educated soldier, a Nobel Prize-winning writer and historian, a prolific painter, and one of the longest-serving politicians in British history. Apart from two years between 1922 and 1924, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1964 and represented a total of five constituencies. Ideologically an economic liberal and imperialist, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955, though he was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924.