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.
CLEMENT ATTLEE
Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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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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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 Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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A period of silence on your part would be welcome.
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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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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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An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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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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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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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.
CLEMENT ATTLEE