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 ATTLEEA period of silence on your part would be welcome.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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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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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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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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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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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.
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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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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