Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
CLEMENT ATTLEEYou will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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The press lives on disaster.
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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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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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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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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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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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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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The individual is sacrificed to the idol of the German Leader, German State or the German race.
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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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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