We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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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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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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We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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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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If 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.
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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures.
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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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A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour’s wife over the garden fence.
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