Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
CLEMENT ATTLEEI believe that the foundation of democratic liberty is a willingness to believe that other people may perhaps be wiser than oneself.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.
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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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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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A period of silence on your part would be welcome.
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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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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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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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No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.
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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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It’s nice to keep in touch – besides, it’s the only place in London where you can park a car.
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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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