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Clement Attlee Quotes: 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.
         

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



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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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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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