A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
CLEMENT ATTLEENot Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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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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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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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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The individual is sacrificed to the idol of the German Leader, German State or the German race.
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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 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 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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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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A period of silence on your part would be welcome.
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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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We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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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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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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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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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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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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