We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
CLEMENT ATTLEEThe 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.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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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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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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If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.
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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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Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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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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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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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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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
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The press lives on disaster.
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