He is one of those orators of whom it was well said, “Before they get up, they do not know what they are going to say; when they are speaking, they do not know what they are saying; and when they have sat down, they do not know what they have said.”
ATTRIBUTION:
Winston Churchill (1874–1965), British statesman, writer. speech, Dec. 20, 1912, to the House of Commons, said of naval commander Lord Charles Beresford.
