“There is no greater love
than giving up one’s soul for one’s friends.” 
~ Vladimir Putin (RRSV)*
at a pro-war rally in Moscow before 200,000 people

And here all these years I thought it was Jesus of Nazareth who said this in Jerusalem at the Last Supper before a dozen or so friends. Where would we be without services like Wikiquote, Phrase Finder, Quote Investigator, Bartleby, LitQuotes, Project Gutenberg, and the Russian news agency—called the Information Telegraph Agency of Russia (ITAR-TASS) to set us straight?

Other guesses as to who said this: Socrates, Gautama Buddha, John Lennon, Doctor Seuss, Mark Twain, C.S. Lewis, W.C. Fields, John Lewis, Winston Churchill, G. K. Chesterton, J. P. Patches, The Jesus Seminar, and Albus Dumbledore.

To tell you the truth, I still can’t quite shake it—I think Jesus did say this.

* Ruski Revised Standard Version Bible.

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