Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
CLEMENT ATTLEEIf you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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A period of silence on your part would be welcome.
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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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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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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 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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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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We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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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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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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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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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 press lives on disaster.
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An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
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