Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
CLEMENT ATTLEENot Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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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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We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.
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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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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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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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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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