Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
CLEMENT ATTLEEIf a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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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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No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.
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A period of silence on your part would be welcome.
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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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Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
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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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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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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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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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The press lives on disaster.
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I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.
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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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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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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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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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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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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 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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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 individual is sacrificed to the idol of the German Leader, German State or the German race.
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