I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.
CLEMENT ATTLEEIt is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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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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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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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 press lives on disaster.
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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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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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A period of silence on your part would be welcome.
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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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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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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 are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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