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.
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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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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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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An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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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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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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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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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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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 ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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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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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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