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