The press lives on disaster.
CLEMENT ATTLEEThe ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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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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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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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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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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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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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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I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.
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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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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 House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
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