If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.
CLEMENT ATTLEEIf you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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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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The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
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An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
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We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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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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No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.
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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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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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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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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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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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