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 …

- Clement Attlee

A period of silence on your part would be welcome.

- Clement Attlee

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

- Clement Attlee

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

- Clement Attlee

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…

- Clement Attlee

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

- Clement Attlee

You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt

- Clement Attlee

If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you're half-way to a dictatorship.

- Clement Attlee

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

- Clement Attlee