We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
CLEMENT ATTLEEWe have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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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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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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The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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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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Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
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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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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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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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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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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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