We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
CLEMENT ATTLEEWe have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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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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I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.
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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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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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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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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 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 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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An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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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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