It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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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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I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.
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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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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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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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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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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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A period of silence on your part would be welcome.
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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 am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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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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