Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
CLEMENT ATTLEEThe House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
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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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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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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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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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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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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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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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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If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.
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An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
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