A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour’s wife over the garden fence.
CLEMENT ATTLEEI must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
-
-
I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.
CLEMENT ATTLEE -
Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
CLEMENT ATTLEE -
If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.
CLEMENT ATTLEE -
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.
CLEMENT ATTLEE -
Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
CLEMENT ATTLEE -
There is a denial of the value of the individual.
CLEMENT ATTLEE -
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
CLEMENT ATTLEE -
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.
CLEMENT ATTLEE -
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.
CLEMENT ATTLEE -
A period of silence on your part would be welcome.
CLEMENT ATTLEE -
An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
CLEMENT ATTLEE -
We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
CLEMENT ATTLEE -
A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
CLEMENT ATTLEE -
Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
CLEMENT ATTLEE -
A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
CLEMENT ATTLEE