A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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.
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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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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In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures.
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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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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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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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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
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