If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.
CLEMENT ATTLEEI must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.
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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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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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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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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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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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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
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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 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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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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