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
silence would-be appreciated
A period of silence on your part would be appreciated.
glasses house historical
The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days
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.
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.
rhyme publish
Can't publish. Don't rhyme, don't scan.
children political genius
Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
men conversation hard
I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
men discovery progress
Man's material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
play dangerous budgets
It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
sleep garden wife
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.
political doe speak
Why does Mosley always speak as though he were a feudal landlord abusing tenants who are in arrears with their rent ?
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.
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.