An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
CLEMENT ATTLEEWe have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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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 am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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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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Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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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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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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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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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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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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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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