The Peace Treaties must be scrapped … I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.
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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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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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 must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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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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It’s nice to keep in touch – besides, it’s the only place in London where you can park a car.
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Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
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We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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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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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
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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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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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