evidence: Articles "Rough Men Stand Ready": Neither Churchill nor Orwell - By THE CHURCHILL PROJECT - | April 6, 2023 - Category: Q & A The Literary Churchill [...] Is this something Churchill said? I see it frequently credited to him. Another version reads: "We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm." —L.K., Dallas [...] Quote Investigator offers a page of explanation tracking the Rough Men quote to a 1993 Washington Times column by film critic and essayist Richard Grenier: "As George Orwell pointed out, people sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."1 Of course, Orwell no more than Churchill ever said precisely that.