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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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.
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A period of silence on your part would be welcome.
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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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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Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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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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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 press lives on disaster.
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No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.
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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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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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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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In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures.
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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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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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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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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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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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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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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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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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