An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
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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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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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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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 you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.
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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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The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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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 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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No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.
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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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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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