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
party political half
If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you're half-way to a dictatorship.
money inspired materialism
No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.
loyalty country ideas
We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty. We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
gentleman succeed boardwalk-empire
You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
war struggle destiny
In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures.
real enemy demand
The real test of one's belief in the doctrine of Habeas Corpus is not when one demands its application on behalf of one's friends but of one's enemies.
blow arms helping
If the money wasted on arms could be used to help the less developed nations, that would probably be a greater blow against the Communist danger than anything else.
decision political gentleman
I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
clever people judgement
A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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.
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.
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.