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.
CLEMENT ATTLEEI 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.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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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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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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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.
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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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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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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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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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The press lives on disaster.
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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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