In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures.
CLEMENT ATTLEEA lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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If the money wasted on arms could be used to help the less developed nations, that would probably be a greater blow against the Communist danger than anything else.
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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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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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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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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
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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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The individual is sacrificed to the idol of the German Leader, German State or the German race.
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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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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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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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