The press lives on disaster.
CLEMENT ATTLEE
CLEMENT ATTLEE
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A period of silence on your part would be welcome.
Clement AttleeClement Attlee Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
Clement AttleeClement Attlee An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
Clement AttleeClement Attlee If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.
Clement AttleeClement Attlee We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
Clement AttleeClement Attlee Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
Clement AttleeClement Attlee 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 AttleeClement Attlee You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
Clement AttleeClement Attlee Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
Clement AttleeClement Attlee A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
Clement AttleeClement Attlee There is a denial of the value of the individual.
Clement AttleeClement Attlee I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.
Clement AttleeClement Attlee I believe that the foundation of democratic liberty is a willingness to believe that other people may perhaps be wiser than oneself.
Clement AttleeClement Attlee A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour’s wife over the garden fence.
Clement AttleeClement Attlee The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
Clement AttleeClement Attlee A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
Clement AttleeClement Attlee
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Even with broken wings, she dares to fly. And even with a broken heart, she dares to love.
Divya khandalDivya khandal And I refuse to apologize until the very end for the way that I feel – my feelings are valid too.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados Contemplate your own mortality daily, then see how much we must change.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Poetry is the voice of the soul and the inspiration of the heart.
Teresa PeresTeresa Peres We parted sadly, like children in the street on a pleasant june afternoon.
Iestyn TudorIestyn Tudor And what shall I call you? Yours. In this life, the ones before, and all others thereafter.
Alexandra MichelleAlexandra Michelle If I could go back to a time I’d be with you. And I’d thank you again for almost being the healing to my heart.
Aimee C. HoveyAimee C. Hovey I was a living breathing nightmare and he was my favorite dream catcher.
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The Reformation was cradled in the printing-press, and established by no other instrument.
Agnes StricklandAgnes Strickland I don’t try to knock people out, but I have the ability to press him and get the cheese.
Adrien BronerAdrien Broner I am no trouble at all. You could press me into dough and make sugar cookies out of me, I’ve been so sweet.
Adriana TrigianiAdriana Trigiani When Donald Trump focuses on a fight with the press or investigating leaks but doesn’t seem committed to standing up to what Russia is doing at home and around the world, that is of profound concern.
Adam SchiffAdam Schiff Press forward at all times, climbing forward toward that higher ground of the harmonious society that shapes the laws of man to the laws of God.
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.Adam Clayton Powell Jr. When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
Ace FrehleyAce Frehley Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
Ezra PoundEzra Pound In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
TacitusTacitus