We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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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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I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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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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A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour’s wife over the garden fence.
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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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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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It’s nice to keep in touch – besides, it’s the only place in London where you can park a car.
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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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