A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
CLEMENT ATTLEEWe have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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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 you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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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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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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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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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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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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Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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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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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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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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