A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour’s wife over the garden fence.
CLEMENT ATTLEEThe Peace Treaties must be scrapped … I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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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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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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If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.
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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 individual is sacrificed to the idol of the German Leader, German State or the German race.
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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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The press lives on disaster.
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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