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.
CLEMENT ATTLEEWe are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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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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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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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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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.
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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 just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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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 you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.
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