Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
CLEMENT ATTLEEIf 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.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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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 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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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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No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
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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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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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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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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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The press lives on disaster.
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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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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