The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
CLEMENT ATTLEEIt is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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The press lives on disaster.
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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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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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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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A period of silence on your part would be welcome.
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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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Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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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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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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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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