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.
CLEMENT ATTLEEIt is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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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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If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.
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We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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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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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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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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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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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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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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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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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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A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour’s wife over the garden fence.
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