I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
CLEMENT ATTLEEAn empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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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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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 period of silence on your part would be welcome.
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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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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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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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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
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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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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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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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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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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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