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CLEMENT ATTLEEWinston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
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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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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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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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The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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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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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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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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