Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
CLEMENT ATTLEEWe have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
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The press lives on disaster.
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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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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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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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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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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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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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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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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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