A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
CLEMENT ATTLEEThe ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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The press lives on disaster.
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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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A period of silence on your part would be welcome.
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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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We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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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 am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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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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I am pleased to see from the laughter on the Ministerial benches that there is no implication on their part to take Sir Oswald Mosley too seriously. It can easily be seen to-day that this idea of a dictator is gradually falling down.
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