Clement Attlee Quotes

It's nice to keep in touch - besides, it's the only place in London where you can park a car.

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.

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

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

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

I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.

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

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

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

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.

A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement

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.

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

The last of our enemies is laid low.

It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.

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

A period of silence on your part would be appreciated.

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.