Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
CLEMENT ATTLEEMan’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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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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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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An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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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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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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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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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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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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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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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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