If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.
CLEMENT ATTLEEIt is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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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 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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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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The press lives on disaster.
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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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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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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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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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Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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