You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
CLEMENT ATTLEEA Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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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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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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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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Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
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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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I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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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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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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The press lives on disaster.
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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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We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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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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A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour’s wife over the garden fence.
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No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.
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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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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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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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In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures.
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