Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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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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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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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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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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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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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An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
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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 Peace Treaties must be scrapped … I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.
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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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