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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 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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The individual is sacrificed to the idol of the German Leader, German State or the German race.
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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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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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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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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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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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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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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An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
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