Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
CLEMENT ATTLEEI 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.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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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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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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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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Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
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The press lives on disaster.
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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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A period of silence on your part would be welcome.
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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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