The Peace Treaties must be scrapped … I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.
CLEMENT ATTLEEThe ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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It’s nice to keep in touch – besides, it’s the only place in London where you can park a car.
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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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The press lives on disaster.
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I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.
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A period of silence on your part would be welcome.
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The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
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The individual is sacrificed to the idol of the German Leader, German State or the German race.
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A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour’s wife over the garden fence.
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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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.
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