Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
CLEMENT ATTLEEIt is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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A period of silence on your part would be welcome.
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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 House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
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An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
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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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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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If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.
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We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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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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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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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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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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I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.
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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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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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A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour’s wife over the garden fence.
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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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