A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
CLEMENT ATTLEEWinston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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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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The Peace Treaties must be scrapped … I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.
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The press lives on disaster.
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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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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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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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If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.
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I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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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 must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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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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