If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.
CLEMENT ATTLEEI believe that the foundation of democratic liberty is a willingness to believe that other people may perhaps be wiser than oneself.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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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 must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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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 Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour’s wife over the garden fence.
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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A period of silence on your part would be welcome.
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.
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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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