If the money wasted on arms could be used to help the less developed nations, that would probably be a greater blow against the Communist danger than anything else.
CLEMENT ATTLEEIt’s nice to keep in touch – besides, it’s the only place in London where you can park a car.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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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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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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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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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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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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The Peace Treaties must be scrapped … I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.
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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 press lives on disaster.
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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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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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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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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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