You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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More Clement Attlee Quotes
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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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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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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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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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If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.
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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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In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures.
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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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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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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
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