The press lives on disaster.
CLEMENT ATTLEEThe ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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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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 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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Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
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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 Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour’s wife over the garden fence.
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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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The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
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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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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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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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A period of silence on your part would be welcome.
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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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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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