Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
CLEMENT ATTLEEI think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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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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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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The Peace Treaties must be scrapped … I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.
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I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.
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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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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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A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour’s wife over the garden fence.
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An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
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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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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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