We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
CLEMENT ATTLEEThe ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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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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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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The press lives on disaster.
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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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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No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.
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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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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 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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