Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
CLEMENT ATTLEEThe individual is sacrificed to the idol of the German Leader, German State or the German race.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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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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The press lives on disaster.
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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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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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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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If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.
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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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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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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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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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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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It’s nice to keep in touch – besides, it’s the only place in London where you can park a car.
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