The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
CLEMENT ATTLEEMan’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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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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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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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 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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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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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 press lives on disaster.
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An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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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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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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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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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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A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour’s wife over the garden fence.
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