We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
CLEMENT ATTLEEDemocracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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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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No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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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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The press lives on disaster.
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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.
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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 ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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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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