Productive power is the foundation of a country's economic strength.

- Stafford Cripps

No one will expect the British Government or the Government of India to give way to threats of violence, disorder and chaos; and, indeed, representat…

- Stafford Cripps

Many hard comments have been made on my efforts in India from the side of the Congress party, yet I feel content in the deep conviction that the offe…

- Stafford Cripps

But it is a fallacy, if one is examining the methods by which security can be attained, to start upon the assumption, as so many hon. Members do, tha…

- Stafford Cripps

We ask the great masses of India to be patient a short time longer, while the cause of freedom is being fought out, not because we want to delay, but…

- Stafford Cripps

It is not yet too late for the Indian people to decide on rapid, ordered progress. I can assure them that the British people are as determined upon s…

- Stafford Cripps

We have pledged ourselves, and of this the United Nations of the world are witness, to give the fullest opportunity for attainment of self-government…

- Stafford Cripps

Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and su…

- Stafford Cripps

We must now allow ourselves to be blinded to long-term developments by the intensity of the short-term difficulties.

- Stafford Cripps