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

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

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

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• Few thought he was even a starter There were many who thought themselves smarter But he ended PM CH and OM An earl and a knight of the garter.

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• I have been very happy…serving in a state of life to which I had never expected to be called.

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• I count our progress by the extent to which what we cried in the wilderness five and thirty years ago has now become part of the assumptions of the ordinary man and woman…It is better to argue from what has been done to what may be done, rather than to suggest that very little has been accomplished.

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• We have seen today a gallant, civilized and democratic people betrayed and handed over to a ruthless despotism.

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• We believe in a League system in which the whole world should be ranged against an aggressor….We do not think that you can deal with national armaments by piling up national armaments in other countries.

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• The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for 5 days.

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

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

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

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Clement Attlee (15)

Birth:	3rd January, 1883
Death:	8th October, 1967
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Lawyer, Politician, Soldier

About

Clement Attlee was born in Putney, Surrey,United Kingdom. He was a British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and as the Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955. First elected to Parliament in 1922 as the MP for Limehouse, he rose quickly to become a minister in the minority government led by Ramsay MacDonald in 1924. He attended Haileybury College, and University College, Oxford, where he graduated with a Second Class Honours BA in Modern History in 1904. During this time Attlee also played football for Fleet Town. Attlee then trained as a lawyer, and was called to the Bar at Inner Temple in 1906. During the First World War, Attlee was commissioned and served with the South Lancashire Regiment in the Gallipoli Campaign in Turkey.

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