A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
CLEMENT ATTLEEA Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour’s wife over the garden fence.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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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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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
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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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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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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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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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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.
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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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