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Top 30 Clement Attlee Quotes (2025 Update)

Clement Attlee Quote: “A period of silence on your part would be appreciated.”

1. “A period of silence on your part would be appreciated.”

— Clement Attlee

Clement Attlee Quote: “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.”

2. “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

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

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

— Clement Attlee

Clement Attlee Quote: “I believe that the foundation of democratic liberty is a willingness to believe that other people may perhaps be wiser than oneself.”

4. “I believe that the foundation of democratic liberty is a willingness to believe that other people may perhaps be wiser than oneself.”

— Clement Attlee

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

5. “I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.”

— Clement Attlee

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

6. “You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt.”

— Clement Attlee

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

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

— Clement Attlee

Clement Attlee Quote: “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.”

8. “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

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

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

— Clement Attlee

Clement Attlee Quote: “Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.”

10. “Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.”

— Clement Attlee

Clement Attlee Quote: “Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.”

11. “Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.”

— Clement Attlee

Clement Attlee Quote: “It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.”

12. “It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.”

— Clement Attlee

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

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

— Clement Attlee

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

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

— Clement Attlee

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

15. “Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.”

— Clement Attlee

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

16. “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

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

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

— Clement Attlee

Clement Attlee Quote: “If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.”

18. “If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.”

— Clement Attlee

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

19. “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

Clement Attlee Quote: “A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement.”

20. “A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement.”

— Clement Attlee

Clement Attlee Quote: “I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.”

21. “I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.”

— Clement Attlee

Clement Attlee Quote: “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.”

22. “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

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

23. “It’s nice to keep in touch – besides, it’s the only place in London where you can park a car.”

— Clement Attlee

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

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

— Clement Attlee

Clement Attlee Quote: “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.”

25. “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.”

— Clement Attlee

Clement Attlee Quote: “Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.”

26. “Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.”

— Clement Attlee

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

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

— Clement Attlee

Clement Attlee Quote: “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.”

28. “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

Clement Attlee Quote: “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.”

29. “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.”

— Clement Attlee

Clement Attlee Quote: “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.”

30. “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

Clement Attlee Quote: “The press lives on disaster.”

31. “The press lives on disaster.”

— Clement Attlee

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