We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
CLEMENT ATTLEECharity is a cold grey loveless thing.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
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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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If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.
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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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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 must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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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 a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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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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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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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 Peace Treaties must be scrapped … I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.
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