The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
CLEMENT ATTLEEIf the money wasted on arms could be used to help the less developed nations, that would probably be a greater blow against the Communist danger than anything else.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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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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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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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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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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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 Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
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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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An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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The press lives on disaster.
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