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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If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.
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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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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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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.
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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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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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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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It’s nice to keep in touch – besides, it’s the only place in London where you can park a car.
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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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The press lives on disaster.
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