We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
CLEMENT ATTLEERussian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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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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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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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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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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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
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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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A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour’s wife over the garden fence.
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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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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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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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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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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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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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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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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 just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.
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If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.
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