Re: certain streets have curtain coinage
OK, so it looks like Churchill appropriated it. At least he had to translate it to proper English! :)
But your citation also says "Goebbels did not coin the phrase, but his use brought it to prominence."
Alex
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-- Isaac Asimov
