No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.
CLEMENT ATTLEEIf a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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It’s nice to keep in touch – besides, it’s the only place in London where you can park a car.
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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 just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.
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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 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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The individual is sacrificed to the idol of the German Leader, German State or the German race.
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The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
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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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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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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 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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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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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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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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