I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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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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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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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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A period of silence on your part would be welcome.
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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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The press lives on disaster.
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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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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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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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