Clement Attlee Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

A period of silence on your part would be welcome.

Man's material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.

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

In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures.

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

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

A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement

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.

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

I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.

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.

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

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.

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

An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.

The press lives on disaster.

It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.