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.
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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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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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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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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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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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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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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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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The individual is sacrificed to the idol of the German Leader, German State or the German race.
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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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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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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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