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.
CLEMENT ATTLEEThe press lives on disaster.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
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The press lives on disaster.
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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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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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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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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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I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.
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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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If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.
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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 must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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