A period of silence on your part would be welcome.
CLEMENT ATTLEEWe have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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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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In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures.
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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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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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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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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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.
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The real test of one’s belief in the doctrine of Habeas Corpus is not when one demands its application on behalf of one’s friends but of one’s enemies.
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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 ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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