A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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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The press lives on disaster.
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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A period of silence on your part would be welcome.
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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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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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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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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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The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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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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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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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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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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