A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
CLEMENT ATTLEEIt is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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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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It’s nice to keep in touch – besides, it’s the only place in London where you can park a car.
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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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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 press lives on disaster.
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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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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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We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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The individual is sacrificed to the idol of the German Leader, German State or the German race.
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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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Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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