A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
CLEMENT ATTLEENot Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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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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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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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The press lives on disaster.
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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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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.
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No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.
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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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If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.
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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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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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