A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
CLEMENT ATTLEEDemocracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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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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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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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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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
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The press lives on disaster.
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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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The Peace Treaties must be scrapped … I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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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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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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