I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
CLEMENT ATTLEEI am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
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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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No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.
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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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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
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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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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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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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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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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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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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