Clement Attlee
Clement Attlee
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRSwas a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and the Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955. Attlee was the first person to hold the office of Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, serving under Winston Churchill in the wartime coalition government, before going on to lead the Labour Party to a landslide election victory in 1945 and...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth3 January 1883
nice government car
It's nice to keep in touch - besides, it's the only place in London where you can park a car.
five sixty
Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
play dangerous budgets
It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
men discovery progress
Man's material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
men conversation hard
I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
children political genius
Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
thinking race idols
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.
laughter fall ideas
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.
political disaster presses
The press lives on disaster.
wine thinking able
I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.
war secret diplomacy
the Peace Treaties must be scrapped ... I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.
downing-street empty taxi
An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
rhyme publish
Can't publish. Don't rhyme, don't scan.
enemies laid last low
The last of our enemies is laid low