In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures.
CLEMENT ATTLEEFifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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The individual is sacrificed to the idol of the German Leader, German State or the German race.
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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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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 lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
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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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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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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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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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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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