You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
CLEMENT ATTLEEI am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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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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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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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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An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
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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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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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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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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 just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.
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We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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