The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
CLEMENT ATTLEENo social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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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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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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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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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
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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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An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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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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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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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
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