Clement Attlee Quotes

#1. The Peace Treaties must be scrapped ... I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.

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#2. No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.

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#3. If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you're half-way to a dictatorship.

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#4. A period of silence on your part would be appreciated.

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#5. It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.

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#6. 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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#7. I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.

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#8. The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days.

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#9. 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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#10. Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.

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#11. 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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#12. The last of our enemies is laid low.

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#13. Can't publish. Don't rhyme, don't scan.

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#14. A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement

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#15. One layer was certainly 17th century. The 18th century in him is obvious. There was the 19th century, and a large slice, of course, of the 20th century; and another, curious layer which may possibly have been the 21st.

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#16. 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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#17. A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women's beds in a week. A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour's wife over the garden fence.

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#18. Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

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#19. Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

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#20. Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. 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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#21. I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.

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#22. We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty. We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.

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#23. Man's material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.

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#24. In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures.

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#25. 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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#26. 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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#27. You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt

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#28. 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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