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.
CLEMENT ATTLEEThe ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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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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If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.
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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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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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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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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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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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The Peace Treaties must be scrapped … I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.
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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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