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.
CLEMENT ATTLEEThe press lives on disaster.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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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 a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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The press lives on disaster.
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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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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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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The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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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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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 Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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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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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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