No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.
CLEMENT ATTLEEMan’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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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 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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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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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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If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.
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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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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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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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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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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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