Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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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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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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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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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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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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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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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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We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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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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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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