Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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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I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.
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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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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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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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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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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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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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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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We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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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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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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If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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