Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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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The press lives on disaster.
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An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
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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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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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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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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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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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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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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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If the money wasted on arms could be used to help the less developed nations, that would probably be a greater blow against the Communist danger than anything else.
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If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.
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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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