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.
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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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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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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A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour’s wife over the garden fence.
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Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
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A period of silence on your part would be welcome.
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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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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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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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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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If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.
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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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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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