Clement Attlee Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.”
-- Clement Attlee

#Freedom #Mean #Government

“Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.”
-- Clement Attlee

#Fifty #Fool #Genius

“I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27”
-- Clement Attlee

#Clever #Numbers #Chinese

“Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.”
-- Clement Attlee

#Children #Politics #Communism

“It's nice to keep in touch - besides, it's the only place in London where you can park a car.”
-- Clement Attlee

#Nice #Government #Car

“A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement”
-- Clement Attlee

#Clever #People #Judgement

“Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.”
-- Clement Attlee

#Children #Political #Genius

“The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days”
-- Clement Attlee

#Glasses #House #Historical

“Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.”
-- Clement Attlee

#Sixty

“You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt”
-- Clement Attlee

#Gentleman #Succeed #Judged

“A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women's beds in a week. A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour's wife over the garden fence.”
-- Clement Attlee

#Sleep #Garden #Wife

“Can't publish. Don't rhyme, don't scan.”
-- Clement Attlee

#Rhyme #Publish

“An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.”
-- Clement Attlee

#Empty #Taxi #Streets

“In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures.”
-- Clement Attlee

#War #Struggle #Destiny

“the Peace Treaties must be scrapped ... I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.”
-- Clement Attlee

#War #Secret #Diplomacy

“Why does Mosley always speak as though he were a feudal landlord abusing tenants who are in arrears with their rent ?”
-- Clement Attlee

#Political #Doe #Speak

“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 to the idol of the German Leader, German State or the German race. The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.”
-- Clement Attlee

#Thinking #Race #Idols

“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 money at a whim.”
-- Clement Attlee

#Men #Charity #Want

“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

#Laughter #Fall #Ideas

“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 Attlee

#Country #Book #People

“We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty. We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.”
-- Clement Attlee

#Loyalty #Country #Order

“No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.”
-- Clement Attlee

#Money #Inspired #Materialism

“The press lives on disaster.”
-- Clement Attlee

#Political #Disaster

“I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.”
-- Clement Attlee

#Decision #Political #Gentleman

“I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.”
-- Clement Attlee

#Wine #Thinking #Able