A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour’s wife over the garden fence.
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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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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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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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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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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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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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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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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In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures.
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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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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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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.
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I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.
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