If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.
CLEMENT ATTLEEI am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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The press lives on disaster.
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We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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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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The Peace Treaties must be scrapped … I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.
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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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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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The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
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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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