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Clement Attlee

(1883–1967) Politician

33 quotes in 205 categories

Clement Attlee was a politician, best known for As It Happened.

Quick Facts About Clement Attlee

Born: January 3, 1883
Died: October 8, 1967
Profession: Politician
Notable works: As It Happened

About Clement Attlee

Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, was a British statesman who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955. Attlee was deputy prime minister during the wartime coalition government under Winston Churchill, and Leader of the Opposition on three occasions: from 1935 to 1940, briefly in 1945 and from 1951 to 1955. He remains the longest-serving Labour leader.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Clement Attlee

The real test of one's belief in the doctrine of Habeas Corpus is not when one demands its application on behalf of…

Application

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

Champagne

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

Decision

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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.

Five

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

Publish

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Man's material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.

Character

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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.

Car

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

Boardwalk empire

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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…

Christianity

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The press lives on disaster.

Disaster

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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…

Benches

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

Dictatorship

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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.

Communication

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

Bloody

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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,…

Charity

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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 ?

Doe

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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement

Clever

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

Behave

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

Children

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

Diplomacy

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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…

Bed

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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.

Believe

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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…

Arms

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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…

Book

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A period of silence on your part would be welcome.

Appreciated

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