A period of silence on your part would be welcome.
CLEMENT ATTLEEWhen 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.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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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 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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If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.
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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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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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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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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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No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.
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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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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 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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Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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The press lives on disaster.
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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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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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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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