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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No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.
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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 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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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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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 am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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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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If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.
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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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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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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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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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