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Clement Attlee Biography

Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967) was a British statesman of the Labour Party who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955. In 1940, Attlee took Labour into the wartime coalition government and served under Winston Churchill, becoming the first person to hold the office of Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He went on to lead the Labour Party to an unexpected landslide victory at the 1945 general election; forming the first Labour majority government, and a mandate to implement its postwar reforms. The 12.0% national swing from the Conservatives to Labour was unprecedented at that time and remains the largest ever achieved by any party at a general election in British electoral history.

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

Five, Sixty, Old, Churchill

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.

Application, Doctrine, Enemy, Habeas, Real

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

Child, Children, Genius, Percent, Political, Winston

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

Country, Idea, Loyalty, Nationalist, Order, World

I believe that the foundation of democratic liberty is a willingness to believe that other people may perhaps be wiser than oneself.

Believe, People, Liberty, Foundation, Wiser

It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.

Budgets, Dangerous, Play, Politics

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

Carry, Conversation, Diffident, Hard, Men

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

Five, Glass, Glasses, Historical, House, Stood

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.

Arms, Blow, Danger, Helping, Wasted

Man's material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.

Discoveries, Discovery, Men, Moral, Progress

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.

Charity, Dole, Men, Rich, Taxes, Want

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.

Fall, Idea, Ideas, Laughter, See, Sir

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

Publish, Rhyme, Scan

It's nice to keep in touch - besides, it's the only place in London where you can park a car.

Car, Government, London, Nice, Touch

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.

Beds, Garden, Neck, Sleep, Tory, Wife

Why does Mosley always speak as though he were a feudal landlord abusing tenants who are in arrears with their rent ?

Arrears, Doe, Landlord, Political, Politics, Speak

I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.

Bottles, Bursting, Nations, Thinking, Wine

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

Democracies Have, Effective, Freedom, Government, Mean, People

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.

Denial, Idols, Nazism, Race, State, Thinking

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

Diplomacy, Scrapped, Secret, Stand, Treaties, War

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