If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.
CLEMENT ATTLEERussian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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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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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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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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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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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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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.
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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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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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