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In Cabinet the important thing is to stop people from talking. Some people are loquacious, some are eloquent. I always used to point out that rhetoric is wasted on a Cabinet of hard-boiled politicians.

— Clement Attlee

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

To ensure peace we needed stronger armed forces as a deterrent to aggression.

The idea that every nation ought to have an atomic bomb, like every woman of fashion ought to have a mink coat, is deplorable.

Progress is not towards, but away from the herd. It is no part of the Socialist idea that there should be in every human activity an orthodox pattern to which all must conform.

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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