If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.
CLEMENT ATTLEEWe are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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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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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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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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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 period of silence on your part would be welcome.
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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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