Clement Attlee Quotes

The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days.

Russian communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

Few thought he was even a starter There were many who thought themselves smarter But he ended PM CH and OM An earl and a knight of the garter.

I have been very happy…serving in a state of life to which I had never expected to be called.

I count our progress by the extent to which what we cried in the wilderness five and thirty years ago has now become part of the assumptions of the ordinary man and woman…It is better to argue from what has been done to what may be done, rather than to suggest that very little has been accomplished.

We have seen today a gallant, civilized and democratic people betrayed and handed over to a ruthless despotism.

We believe in a League system in which the whole world should be ranged against an aggressor….We do not think that you can deal with national armaments by piling up national armaments in other countries.