We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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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I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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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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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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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of 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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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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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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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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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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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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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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