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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement


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No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.

No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.



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



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



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



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





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