A period of silence on your part would be welcome.
CLEMENT ATTLEEMan’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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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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If the money wasted on arms could be used to help the less developed nations, that would probably be a greater blow against the Communist danger than anything else.
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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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Why does Mosley always speak as though he were a feudal landlord abusing tenants who are in arrears with their rent ?
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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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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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If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.
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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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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 House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
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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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I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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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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