You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
CLEMENT ATTLEEChristianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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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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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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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 Peace Treaties must be scrapped … I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.
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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.
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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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I believe that the foundation of democratic liberty is a willingness to believe that other people may perhaps be wiser than oneself.
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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