A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
CLEMENT ATTLEEMan’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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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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We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
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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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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 am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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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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