Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
CLEMENT ATTLEEAn empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
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An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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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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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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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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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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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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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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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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No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.
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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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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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