Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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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 am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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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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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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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 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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A period of silence on your part would be welcome.
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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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 must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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