A period of silence on your part would be welcome.
CLEMENT ATTLEEThe ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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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 must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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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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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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The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
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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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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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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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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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The press lives on disaster.
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