Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
CLEMENT ATTLEEThe press lives on disaster.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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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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An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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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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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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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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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
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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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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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The press lives on disaster.
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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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