British Quote by Stafford Cripps

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

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

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

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

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

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

Productive power is the foundation of a country's economic strength.

— Stafford Cripps

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

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

We must now allow ourselves to be blinded to long-term developments by the intensity of the short-term difficulties.

— Stafford Cripps

It is fundamental to socialism that we should liquidate the British Empire as soon as we can

— Stafford Cripps

Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if…

— Stafford Cripps