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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 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 The press lives on disaster.
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 Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
Clement AttleeClement Attlee I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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