Clement Attlee Quotes
- I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27
- In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures.
- The press lives on disaster.
- The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty. We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
- No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.
- I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.
- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
- Why does Mosley always speak as though he were a feudal landlord abusing tenants who are in arrears with their rent ?
- Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
- Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
- One layer was certainly 17th century. The 18th century in him is obvious. There was the 19th century, and a large slice, of course, of…
- The last of our enemies is laid low.