Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
CLEMENT ATTLEEChristianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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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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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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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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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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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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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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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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