It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
CLEMENT ATTLEEI am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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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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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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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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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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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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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures.
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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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