evidence: According to PolitiFact, the quote attributed to Churchill is a rough paraphrase of Victor Hugo, the French playwright, from an essay he wrote a century before the Nazis were defeated. [...] Winston Churchill’s official biographer, Sir Martin Gilbert, speaking of this quote, noted that Churchill actually said, ‘Meeting jaw to jaw is better than war.’ Four years later, during a visit to Australia, Harold Macmillan said the words usually—and wrongly—attributed to Churchill: "Jaw, jaw is better than war, war." Credit: Harold Macmillan. [...] Both are misquotations of what Churchill actually said, which was, ‘Never give in—never, never, never, never, except to convictions of honour and good sense.’ in an address at Harrow.