An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
CLEMENT ATTLEEI am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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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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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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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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A period of silence on your part would be welcome.
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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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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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A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour’s wife over the garden fence.
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Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
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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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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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