text: who said if you're not a liberal at 20 you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at 40 you have no brain   winston churchill  edit: actually i stand corrected (see 2nd link)  "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." there is no record of anyone hearing churchill say this. paul addison of edinburgh university makes 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!  and would he have talked so disrespectfully of clemmie, who is generally thought to have been a lifelong liberal?"