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“Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.”
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Clement Attlee
Source : Speech at Oxford, 14 June 1957, in The Times 15 June 1957
#Freedom Quotes
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“Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.”
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Clement Attlee
#Fifty Quotes
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“I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27”
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Clement Attlee
#Clever Quotes
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“Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.”
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Clement Attlee
Source : Speech at Aarhus University, 11 Apr. 1956, in The Times 12 Apr. 1956
#Children Quotes
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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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Clement Attlee
#Nice Quotes
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“A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement”
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Clement Attlee
Source : Clement Richard Attlee, Francis Williams (1962). “Twilight of Empire: Memoirs of Prime Minister Clement Attlee”
#Clever Quotes
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“Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.”
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Clement Attlee
#Children Quotes
#Political Quotes
#Genius Quotes
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“The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days”
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Clement Attlee
#Glasses Quotes
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“Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.”
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Clement Attlee
#Sixty Quotes
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“You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt”
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Clement Attlee
#Gentleman Quotes
#Succeed Quotes
#Judged Quotes
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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.”
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Clement Attlee
Source : "Memoirs 1916-1964: The Making of a Prime Minister" by Harold Wilson, Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Michael Joseph, London, (p. 121), 1986.
#Sleep Quotes
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“Can't publish. Don't rhyme, don't scan.”
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Clement Attlee
#Rhyme Quotes
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“An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.”
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Clement Attlee
#Empty Quotes
#Taxi Quotes
#Streets Quotes
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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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Clement Attlee
#War Quotes
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#Destiny Quotes
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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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Clement Attlee
#War Quotes
#Secret Quotes
#Diplomacy Quotes
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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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Clement Attlee
#Political Quotes
#Doe Quotes
#Speak Quotes
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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.”
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Clement Attlee
Source : Clement Richard Attlee (1940). “War comes to Britain: speeches of the Rt. Hon. C. R. Atlee, M.P.”
#Thinking 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.”
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Clement Attlee
#Men Quotes
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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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Clement Attlee
#Laughter Quotes
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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.”
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Clement Attlee
Source : "The Labour Party in Perspective" by Clement Attlee, Left Book Club, 1937.
#Country Quotes
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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.”
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Clement Attlee
Source : "Your Alternative Government" by Talus, London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, (p. 17), 1945.
#Loyalty Quotes
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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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Clement Attlee
#Money Quotes
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“The press lives on disaster.”
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Clement Attlee
#Political Quotes
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“I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.”
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Clement Attlee
Source : Clement Richard Attlee, Francis Williams (1962). “Twilight of Empire: Memoirs of Prime Minister Clement Attlee”
#Decision 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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Clement Attlee
#Wine Quotes
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