evidence: Excerpted from "’Rough Men Stand Ready’: Neither Churchill nor Orwell," written for the Hillsdale College Churchill Project. For the original article with endnotes, click here. To subscribe to weekly articles from Hillsdale-Churchill, click here, scroll to bottom, and fill in your email in the box entitled "Stay in touch with us." Your email address is never given out and remains a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. [...] 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." Of course, Orwell no more than Churchill ever said precisely that.