The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
CLEMENT ATTLEEIt’s nice to keep in touch – besides, it’s the only place in London where you can park a car.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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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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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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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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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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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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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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We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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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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