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.
CLEMENT ATTLEEThe Peace Treaties must be scrapped … I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
-
-
I believe that the foundation of democratic liberty is a willingness to believe that other people may perhaps be wiser than oneself.
CLEMENT ATTLEE -
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.
CLEMENT ATTLEE -
A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour’s wife over the garden fence.
CLEMENT ATTLEE -
The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
CLEMENT ATTLEE -
It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
CLEMENT ATTLEE -
You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
CLEMENT ATTLEE -
A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
CLEMENT ATTLEE -
The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
CLEMENT ATTLEE -
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
CLEMENT ATTLEE -
There is a denial of the value of the individual.
CLEMENT ATTLEE -
Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
CLEMENT ATTLEE -
Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
CLEMENT ATTLEE -
I am pleased to see from the laughter on the Ministerial benches that there is no implication on their part to take Sir Oswald Mosley too seriously. It can easily be seen to-day that this idea of a dictator is gradually falling down.
CLEMENT ATTLEE -
I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.
CLEMENT ATTLEE -
Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
CLEMENT ATTLEE