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.
CLEMENT ATTLEEWe have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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A period of silence on your part would be welcome.
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It’s nice to keep in touch – besides, it’s the only place in London where you can park a car.
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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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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 House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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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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We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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The press lives on disaster.
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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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