If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.
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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No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.
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Why does Mosley always speak as though he were a feudal landlord abusing tenants who are in arrears with their rent ?
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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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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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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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The Peace Treaties must be scrapped … I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.
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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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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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When we are returned to power we want to put in the statute book an act which will make our people citizens of the world before they are citizens of this country.
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Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.
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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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