A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma

Everyone has heard that right? It's a pretty popular phrase bandied about by many different people about many different subjects. Us geeks love to use that phrase. But do you know where it actually comes from? It is a quote from one of history's all-time most quotable -Winston Churchill. The full quote is "I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest." Abraham Lincoln's most famous speech, in fact one of America's most famous speeches, the Gettysburg Address, was only ten sentences…