A period of silence on your part would be welcome.
CLEMENT ATTLEEI think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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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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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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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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I believe that the foundation of democratic liberty is a willingness to believe that other people may perhaps be wiser than oneself.
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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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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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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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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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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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