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

- Clement Attlee

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

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

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

- 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

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

- Clement Attlee

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

- Clement Attlee