Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
CLEMENT ATTLEEThe 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.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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A period of silence on your part would be welcome.
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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
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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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I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.
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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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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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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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The individual is sacrificed to the idol of the German Leader, German State or the German race.
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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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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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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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