In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures.
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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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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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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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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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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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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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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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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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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No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.
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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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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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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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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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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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A period of silence on your part would be welcome.
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The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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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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