We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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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A period of silence on your part would be welcome.
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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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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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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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The press lives on disaster.
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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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The individual is sacrificed to the idol of the German Leader, German State or the German race.
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Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
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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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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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If the money wasted on arms could be used to help the less developed nations, that would probably be a greater blow against the Communist danger than anything else.
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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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