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.
CLEMENT ATTLEECharity is a cold grey loveless thing.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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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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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own 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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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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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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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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An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
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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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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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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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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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The press lives on disaster.
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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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