A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
CLEMENT ATTLEERussian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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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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A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour’s wife over the garden fence.
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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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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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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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A period of silence on your part would be welcome.
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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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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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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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The press lives on disaster.
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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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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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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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