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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More Clement Attlee Quotes
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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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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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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.
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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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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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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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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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Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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