The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
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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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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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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The press lives on disaster.
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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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In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures.
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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.
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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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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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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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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 ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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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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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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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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