Clement Attlee Quotes

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• 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.

  Clement Attlee

  Men, Charity, Want

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

  Clement Attlee

  Money, Inspired, Materialism

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

  Clement Attlee

  Party, Political, Half

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• You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt

  Clement Attlee

  Gentleman, Succeed, Boardwalk Empire

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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.

  Clement Attlee

  Believe, People, Liberty

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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.

  Clement Attlee

  Country, Book, People

  "The Labour Party in Perspective" by Clement Attlee, Left Book Club, 1937.

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• 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.

  Clement Attlee

  Sleep, Garden, Wife

  "Memoirs 1916-1964: The Making of a Prime Minister" by Harold Wilson, Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Michael Joseph, London, (p. 121), 1986.

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

  Clement Attlee

  Freedom, Mean, Democracies Have

  Speech at Oxford, 14 June 1957, in The Times 15 June 1957

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• A period of silence on your part would be welcome.

  Clement Attlee

  Silence, Would Be, Appreciated

  "Twentieth Century British Political Facts" by David Butler and Gareth Butler, (p. 289), 2005.

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• Man's material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.

  Clement Attlee

  Men, Discovery, Progress

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

  Clement Attlee

  Loyalty, Country, Order

  "Your Alternative Government" by Talus, London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, (p. 17), 1945.

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

  Clement Attlee

  War, Struggle, Destiny

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• Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.

  Clement Attlee

  Genius, Fifty, Fool

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

  Clement Attlee

  Children, Historical, Politics

  Speech at Aarhus University, 11 Apr. 1956, in The Times 12 Apr. 1956

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• A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement

  Clement Attlee

  Clever, People, Judgement

  Clement Richard Attlee, Francis Williams (1962). “Twilight of Empire: Memoirs of Prime Minister Clement Attlee”

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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.

  Clement Attlee

  Blow, Arms, Helping

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• I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.

  Clement Attlee

  Clever, Numbers, Chinese

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• I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.

  Clement Attlee

  Decision, Political, Gentleman

  Clement Richard Attlee, Francis Williams (1962). “Twilight of Empire: Memoirs of Prime Minister Clement Attlee”

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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 ?

  Clement Attlee

  Political, Doe, Politics

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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.

  Clement Attlee

  Real, Enemy, Tests

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• There is a denial of the value of the individual. Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it. The individual is sacrificed to the idol of the German Leader, German State or the German race. The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.

  Clement Attlee

  Thinking, Race, Idols

  Clement Richard Attlee (1940). “War comes to Britain: speeches of the Rt. Hon. C. R. Atlee, M.P.”

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• Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.

  Clement Attlee

  Children, Political, Genius

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• An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.

  Clement Attlee

  Downing Street, Empty, Taxi

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• It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.

  Clement Attlee

  Play, Dangerous, Budgets

  Clement Richard Attlee, Francis Williams (1962). “Twilight of Empire: Memoirs of Prime Minister Clement Attlee”

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• The press lives on disaster.

  Clement Attlee

  Political, Politics, Disaster

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