I believe that the foundation of democratic liberty is a willingness to believe that other people may perhaps be wiser than oneself.
CLEMENT ATTLEEYou will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
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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 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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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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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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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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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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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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The Peace Treaties must be scrapped … I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.
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A period of silence on your part would be welcome.
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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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