A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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 Peace Treaties must be scrapped … I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.
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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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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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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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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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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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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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A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour’s wife over the garden fence.
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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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We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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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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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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