Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.
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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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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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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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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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An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
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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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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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We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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The press lives on disaster.
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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