A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour’s wife over the garden fence.
CLEMENT ATTLEECan’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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The individual is sacrificed to the idol of the German Leader, German State or the German race.
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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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The press lives on disaster.
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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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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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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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If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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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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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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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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