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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

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A period of silence on your part would be welcome.
CLEMENT ATTLEE

Part Period Silence Welcome
If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.
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Begin Consider Dictatorship Half Party Political Responsible Soley Way Yourself
Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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Church Churchill Five Old Sixty
You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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Attempt Gentlemen Judge Succeed
It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
CLEMENT ATTLEE

Budget Dangerous Paly Politics
I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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Decision Gentlemen Honorable Monologue Must Remind Right
Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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Bloody Fifty Fool People Country Percent Person
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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Believe Democracy Foundation Liberty Oneself Other People Willingness Wiser
I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.
CLEMENT ATTLEE

Country Dish Favourite Good Love Number Twelve
Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
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Behave Bloody Child Country Fisty Fool Genius Percent Person
No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.
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Greater Happiness Health Inspire Materialism No Prosperity Social Something System Unless
The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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Allow Citizen Decree Her Ordinary Ruler Think
I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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Carry Conservation Different Find Hard Man
The press lives on disaster.
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Disaster Live Press
We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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Abandoned Absolute Idea Loyalty Nationality
In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures.
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Afford Death Destines Failure Hand Leave Life Struggle
We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
CLEMENT ATTLEE

Before Country Deliberate Loyalty Order Own Put World
A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
CLEMENT ATTLEE

Bed Country Different Minister Sleep Week Women
An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
CLEMENT ATTLEE

Clement Country Dew Downing Empty Go Out Outside Person Street Taxi
A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour’s wife over the garden fence.
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Fence Garden Get Labour Look Minister Neck Neighbor Over Wife
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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Dole Gladly Help Man Money Pay Poor Rich Tax
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.
CLEMENT ATTLEE

Bench Country Implication Laughter Ministerial Part People Person Pleasure See Sir Take
Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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Affirm Christianity Denise Each Individual Soul Value
A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
CLEMENT ATTLEE

Clever Everything Except Got Judgement People
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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Abuse Always Arrear Default Landlord Mostly Rent Speak Tenant Though
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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Able Above Action Being Bottle Burst Country Distinction Old Think Wine
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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Application Behalf Belief Country Demand Doctrine Friend People Person Real Test

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