Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
CLEMENT ATTLEEChristianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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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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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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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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No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.
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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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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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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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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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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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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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