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.
CLEMENT ATTLEEThe ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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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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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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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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If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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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 individual is sacrificed to the idol of the German Leader, German State or the German race.
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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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Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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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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The Peace Treaties must be scrapped … I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.
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