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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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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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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The Peace Treaties must be scrapped … I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.
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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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The press lives on disaster.
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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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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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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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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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The individual is sacrificed to the idol of the German Leader, German State or the German race.
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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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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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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 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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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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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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Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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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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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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