I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.
CLEMENT ATTLEECan’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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It’s nice to keep in touch – besides, it’s the only place in London where you can park a car.
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A period of silence on your part would be welcome.
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A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour’s wife over the garden fence.
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I am pleased to see from the laughter on the Ministerial benches that there is no implication on their part to take Sir Oswald Mosley too seriously. It can easily be seen to-day that this idea of a dictator is gradually falling down.
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The press lives on disaster.
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.
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I believe that the foundation of democratic liberty is a willingness to believe that other people may perhaps be wiser than oneself.
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The real test of one’s belief in the doctrine of Habeas Corpus is not when one demands its application on behalf of one’s friends but of one’s enemies.
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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures.
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
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The individual is sacrificed to the idol of the German Leader, German State or the German race.
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