A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour’s wife over the garden fence.
CLEMENT ATTLEEIt is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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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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Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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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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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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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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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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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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We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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A period of silence on your part would be welcome.
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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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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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