Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
CLEMENT ATTLEEA Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour’s wife over the garden fence.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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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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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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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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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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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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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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A period of silence on your part would be welcome.
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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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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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