We ask the great masses of India to be patient a short time longer, while the cause of freedom is being fought out, not because we want to delay, but because the hard facts of war make a complete change… — Stafford Cripps Copy Share Image
Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of war that exists may help, and will always be listened to with respect and sympathy. — Stafford Cripps Copy Share Image
Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy… — Stafford Cripps Copy Share Image
We ask the great masses of India to be patient a short time longer, while the cause of freedom is being fought out, not… — Stafford Cripps Copy Share Image
But it is a fallacy, if one is examining the methods by which security can be attained, to start upon the assumption, as so… — Stafford Cripps Copy Share Image
We have pledged ourselves, and of this the United Nations of the world are witness, to give the fullest opportunity for attainment of self-government… — Stafford Cripps Copy Share Image
India has indeed a great and free future before her, in which she can make her special contribution to the well-being of mankind. The… — Stafford Cripps Copy Share Image
Many hard comments have been made on my efforts in India from the side of the Congress party, yet I feel content in the… — Stafford Cripps Copy Share Image
Productive power is the foundation of a country's economic strength. — Stafford Cripps Copy Share Image
Violent statements and threats cannot provide a solution to the problem. They can only exacerbate feeling and make a clash of forces inevitable. — Stafford Cripps Copy Share Image
It is not yet too late for the Indian people to decide on rapid, ordered progress. I can assure them that the British people… — Stafford Cripps Copy Share Image
Every possible effort should be made to stop recruiting for the Armed Forces. This may, and probably would, lead to some form of conscription… — Stafford Cripps Copy Share Image
We must now allow ourselves to be blinded to long-term developments by the intensity of the short-term difficulties. — Stafford Cripps Copy Share Image
It is fundamental to socialism that we should liquidate the British Empire as soon as we can — Stafford Cripps Copy Share Image
