We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
CLEMENT ATTLEEI am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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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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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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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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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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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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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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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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A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour’s wife over the garden fence.
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A period of silence on your part would be welcome.
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