Updated at 11:20 a.m. with reaction from Abbott and at 10:25 a.m. Aug. 7 to indicate the tweet has been deleted.

AUSTIN — Some insights are timeless — and some are just erroneous.

On Tuesday morning, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted a meme that falsely attributed a quote about fascism to former Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The quote states, "The fascists of the future will call themselves anti-fascists."

Abbott tweeted the meme at 1:10 a.m. Tuesday, adding "some insights are timeless." He deleted it at around 10:20 a.m, after it had been retweeted more than 1,400 times. More than 2,600 people responded, many of whom pointed out that the quote was not Churchill's.

The governor's spokesmen did not respond to requests for comment before it was deleted. Abbott was then asked about the tweet at a press conference early Tuesday afternoon.

"What I tweeted was a sentiment that I had," Abbott said at a news conference on changes to the state's bail laws. "It was irrelevant to me who may or may not have said that in the past. I didn't want to be accused of plagiarism for saying it. If no one else said it, attribute the quote to me because it's what I believe in."

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted this meme on Tuesday morning featuring a quote falsely attributed to former Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The tweet was deleted later that morning. (Screenshot of Gov. Greg Abbott Twitter account.)

The meme was pulled from a website called 9gag.com and purports to offer the view of "Churchill on the leftwing." Similar quotes have also been ascribed multiple times to the Depression-era governor of Louisiana, Huey Long, who was assassinated in the state Capitol building in 1935, but it's also unclear whether Long ever uttered them.

Antifascism, or "antifa," as it's become known, is a movement that comprises various far-left militant groups that protest against white nationalism and capitalism. Conservative politicians have criticized members of the movement as violent anarchists.

Abbott has shared incorrect news stories on his Twitter account before and has admitted his mistake.

In August 2017, the governor tweeted a news story that Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones threatened to fire players who did not stand for the national anthem. Abbott did not delete the Cowboys tweet. He admitted that he later found out it wasn't true but said he wished it was. Jones has since said he would penalize players who do not stand for the anthem.

Later that same month, Abbott tweeted about a poll that put musician Kid Rock leading Debbie Stabenow in the election for Michigan's Senate seat. The poll was fake, but Abbott did not delete that tweet either.