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Clement Attlee

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“… the Peace Treaties must be scrapped … I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.”
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) first seen 1922 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Extract from his 1922 election address, quoted in T.W. Walding (ed.), Who's Who in the New Parliament:Members and their pledges (Philip Gee, London, 1922), p. 35
“You may produce a case here and there of abuse of the dole: you may produce an occasional man who marches with the unemployed and has a bad record; but every Member of this House who has been in a contested election and has come into personal contact with the unemployed knows that the great mass of unemployed men are those same men who saved us during the War. They are the same men who stood side by side in the trenches. They are the heroes of 1914 and 1918, though they may be pointed out as the Bolshevists of to-day.”
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Recorded in: Speech in the House of Commons (23 November 1922)
“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 (1883–1967) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the Labour Party Conference in Southport (2 October 1934) , quoted in Talus, Your Alternative Government (1945), p. 17 and D. M. Touche, Britain's Lost Victory (1941).
“We are told in the White Paper that there is danger against which we have to guard ourselves. We do not think you can do it by national defence. We think you can only do it by moving forward to a new world – a world of law, the abolition of national armaments with a world force and a world economic system. I shall be told that that is quite impossible.”
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) first seen 1935 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in the House of Commons (11 March 1935). Attlee's concluding observation was met by Conservative cries of "Hear, hear", with one MP shouting "Tell that to Hitler" according to The Times of 12 March 1935.
“The nationalist and imperialist delusions that run through all this document are far more wild than any idealist dreams of the future that we hold. But we say that if there is this menace, it is not going to be met by any policy of alliances. It is not going to be met by attack. We loath and detest the military spirit, the tyrannical spirit which has shown itself all over the world. You will never beat this by attack; you will only beat it by putting something far bigger in its place.”
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Recorded in: Speech in the House of Commons on the National Government's White Paper on Defence (11 March 1935)
“Mr. Chamberlain's Budget was the natural expression of the character of the present Government. There was hardly any increase allowed for the services which went to build up the life of the people, education and health. Everything was devoted to piling up the instruments of death. The Chancellor expressed great regret that he should have to spend so much on armaments, but said that it was absolutely necessary and was due only to the actions of other nations. One would think to listen to him that the Government had no responsibility for the state of world affairs.”
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) first seen 1936 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Broadcast (22 April 1936), quoted in "Mr. Attlee on a war budget", The Times (23 April 1936), p. 16.
“The Government has now resolved to enter upon an arms race, and the people will have to pay for their mistake in believing that it could be trusted to carry out a policy of peace. … This is a War Budget. We can look in the future for no advance in Social Legislation. All available resources are to be devoted to armaments.”
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) first seen 1936 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Broadcast (22 April 1936), quoted in "Mr. Attlee on a war budget", The Times (23 April 1936), p. 16.
“Socialism is not the invention of an individual. It is essentially the outcome of economic and social conditions. The evils that Capitalism brings differ in intensity in different countries, but, the root cause of the trouble once discerned, the remedy is seen to be the same by thoughtful men and women. The cause is the private ownership of the means of life; the remedy is public ownership.”
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) first seen 1937 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Labour Party in Perspective (Left Book Club, 1937), p. 15
“Socialists do not propose to substitute the domination of society by one privileged class for that of another. They seek to abolish class distinctions altogether. The abolition of classes is fundamental to the Socialist conception of society.”
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) first seen 1937 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Labour Party in Perspective (Left Book Club, 1937), p. 145
“All the major industries will be owned and controlled by the community, but there may well exist for a long time many smaller enterprises which are left to be carried on individually... the interests of the community as a whole must come before that of any sectional group... the managers and technicians must be given reasonable freedom if they are to work efficiently, a freedom within the general economic plan... the workers must be citizens and not wage slaves.”
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) first seen 1937 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Labour Party in Perspective (Left Book Club, 1937), p. 153
“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 (1883–1967) first seen 1937 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Labour Party in Perspective (Left Book Club, 1937)
“The events of these last few days constitute one of the greatest diplomatic defeats that this country and France have ever sustained. There can be no doubt that it is a tremendous victory for Herr Hitler. Without firing a shot, by the mere display of military force, he has achieved a dominating position in Europe which Germany failed to win after four years of war. He has overturned the balance of power in Europe. He has destroyed the last fortress of democracy in Eastern Europe which stood in the way of his ambition.”
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) first seen 1938 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in the House of Commons against the Munich Agreement (3 October 1938)
“Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.”
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) first seen 1916 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Harold Wilson, Memoirs 1916-1964: The Making of a Prime Minister (Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Michael Joseph, London, 1986), p. 54.
“In regard to...action in the South Atlantic, we all desire to join in the tribute paid to the gallantry of our sailors. It is one of the almost inevitable conditions of sea warfare that so much of the fighting is done between adversaries of very different strengths, and the way in which our ships, despite their smaller gun-power, tackled and stuck to this very powerful enemy vessel and forced her to take refuge, is worthy of the highest traditions of the British Navy.”
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) first seen 1939 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in the House of Commons after the Battle of the River Plate when the German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee was forced to harbour by the Royal Navy (14 December 1939)
“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 (1883–1967) first seen 1940 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech (May 1940), quoted in the The Listener (Vol. 23), BBC (1940)
“The British people now realise the danger with which they are faced, and know that in the event of a German victory everything they have built up will be destroyed. The Germans kill not only men, but ideas. Our people are resolved as never before in their history.”
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) first seen 1940 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remarks to the meeting of the Supreme War Council in the War Office in the Rue Saint-Dominique, Paris (31 May 1940), quoted in Winston Churchill, The Second World War, Volume Two: Their Finest Hour [1949] (1951), p. 105
“The aim of the Nazis was to enslave all the peoples, who were to be the mere instruments of the Germans, the Herrenfolk, the master class. To that we opposed the democratic ideal, whereby we saw the world as a community of nations, differing in their qualities but united in a comity of nations, like the citizens of a town, but recognizing each other's rights and uniting for common purposes.”
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) first seen 1941 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Chesterfield (13 June 1941), quoted in The Times (14 June 1941), p. 2
“We had had the help during the past 20 months...of a number of Dominion statesmen. Our touch with those who guided the destinies of the Commonwealth was very close and constant. That was very right and necessary, because we were all engaged in the same great venture, we were all defending a common heritage—the cause of freedom and democracy. The links which united us with the free peoples of the Commonwealth proved their strength, and as we stood together in war so we should stand together in peace to create a new and better world.”
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) first seen 1942 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the 65th anniversary luncheon of the United Wards' Club in the Connaught Rooms, London (23 February 1942), quoted in The Times (24 February 1942), p. 2
“You may have the best machinery in the world, you may have adequate supplies of munitions, you may have the men, you may have the generals; but wars are fought out eventually always as contests of will, and there are needed in the responsible positions men who are prepared to give decisions, who are not afraid to take risks, men of inflexible will-power. In all these respects, I say, from very close working with him for the last two years, that we have in the Prime Minister a leader in war such as this country has rarely had in its long history.”
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Recorded in: Speech in the House of Commons (19 May 1942)
“It makes one feel a bit old, for your early days at school coincide with my beginnings in the Labour Movement. I can never escape from the Victorian era in which I grew up — an era which, in the light of the last thirty years, had some points of vantage in the way of tranquillity.”
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) first seen 1942 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to A. L. Rowse after reading his autobiography A Cornish Childhood (1942), quoted in A. L. Rowse, 'C. R. Attlee', Glimpses of the Great (1985), pp. 64-65
“I take it to be a fundamental assumption that whatever post-war international organisation is established, it will be our aim to maintain the British Commonwealth as an international entity, recognised as such by foreign countries... If we are to carry our full weight in the post-war world with the US and USSR, it can only be as a united British Commonwealth.”
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) first seen 1943 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'The Relations of the British Commonwealth to the Post-War International Political Organisation' (June 1943), quoted in Correlli Barnett, The Lost Victory: British Dreams, British Realities 1945–1950 (1995), p. 51
“[T]he people of Britain and the Dominions were not much given to self-glorification. We were indeed inclined to a certain self-depreciation which was not always understood outside our own family of nations; but this was an occasion when they might take a proper pride in themselves. The world knew that in the critical time after Hitler's victories in 1940 it was the British Commonwealth and Empire that stood alone in defence of freedom for a whole year. It was British steadfastness that held the line while the forces of freedom were gathering.”
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) first seen 1944 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the conference of representatives of the British and Dominion Labour parties, Westminster, London (12 September 1944), quoted in The Times (13 September 1944), p. 8
“I returned last week...from visiting the Italian front. I was up with the Eighth Army, that Army which will always seem to me to epitomize the unity of our Commonwealth and Empire. I saw there in Italy Canadians, South Africans, and New Zealanders. I recalled talking with General Alexander the great deeds of the Australians. As I saw our lads from all our countries so fine and gallant, I was thrilled with pride.”
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Recorded in: Speech to the conference of representatives of the British and Dominion Labour parties, Westminster, London (12 September 1944), quoted in The Times (13 September 1944), p. 8
“I shall not waste time on this theoretical stuff, which seems to me to be a secondhand version of the academic views of an Austrian professor—Friedrich August von Hayek—who is very popular just now with the Conservative Party. Any system can be reduced to absurdity by this kind of theoretical reasoning, just as German professors showed theoretically that British democracy must be beaten by German dictatorship. It was not.”
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) first seen 1945 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Broadcast (5 June 1945), quoted in The Times (6 June 1945), p. 2. The Conservatives had used some of their paper ration for the election on Hayek's book The Road to Serfdom.
“You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt.”
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Recorded in: On formation of Government after landslide victory in 1945.
“To-day the United States stands out as the mightiest Power on earth, and yet America is a threat to no one. All know that she will never use her power for selfish aims or territorial aggrandisement in the future any more than she has done in the past. We look upon her forces and our own forces and those of other nations as instruments that must never be employed save in the interests of world security and for the repression of the aggressor.”
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) first seen 1945 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address to the United States Congress (13 November 1945), quoted in The Times (14 November 1945), p. 4
“The Old School Tie can still be seen on the Government benches.”
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Recorded in: Address to the United States Congress (13 November 1945), quoted in The Times (14 November 1945), p. 8
“You have no right whatever to speak on behalf of the Government. Foreign affairs are in the capable hands of Ernest Bevin. His task is quite sufficiently difficult without the irresponsible statements of the kind you are making . . . I can assure you there is widespread resentment in the Party at your activities and a period of silence on your part would be welcome.”
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Harold Laski, Chairman of the Labour Party (1946), quoted in David Butler and Gareth Butler, Twentieth Century British Political Facts (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), p. 289.
“What is this principle? It is not embodied in some narrow doctrinaire formula, as some of our opponents would suggest. Still less is it a particular economic or political formula laid down once for all. It is essentially a moral principle on which we believe the life of nations and of individuals should be ordered. That principle is the brotherhood of man.”
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Recorded in: Speech to a London Labour Party rally in the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (5 May 1946), quoted in The Times (6 May 1946), p. 3
“Looking back today over the years, we may well be proud of the work which our fellow citizens have done in India. There have, of course, been mistakes, there have been failures, but we can assert that our rule in India will stand comparison with that of any other nation which has been charged with the ruling of a people so different from themselves.”
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) first seen 1947 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in the House of Commons (10 July 1947)
“May I recall here a thing that is not always remembered, that just as India owes her unity and freedom from external aggression to the British, so the Indian National Congress itself was founded and inspired by men of our own race, and further, that any judgment passed on our rule in India by Indians is passed on the basis, not of what obtained in the past in India, but on the principles which we have ourselves instilled into them.”
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Recorded in: Speech in the House of Commons (10 July 1947)
“A hundred years ago the year 1848 saw Liberals and Socialists in revolt all over Europe against absolute Governments which suppressed all opposition. It is ironical that to-day the absolutists who suppress opposition much more vigorously than the kings and emperors of the past masquerade under the name of upholders of democracy. It is a tragedy that a section of a movement which began in an endeavour to free the souls and bodies of men should have been perverted into an instrument for their enslavement.”
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) first seen 1948 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Broadcast (3 January 1948), quoted in The Times (5 January 1948), p. 4
“We shall not accept the Communist doctrine. That doctrine springs in the east. Oriental in its conception, it does not belong to the main stream of democratic thought. We in this country have our own democratic Socialism in which we believe, and we have a higher standard than they have in the east with regard to human rights and, I think, their way of life altogether. It is time those people recognised that we intend to carry on with our way.”
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Recorded in: Speech to a rally of agricultural workers in Skegness (27 June 1948), quoted in The Times (28 June 1948), p. 4
“When you find anyone doing this look at him carefully. You will generally find he is a Communist or a fellow-traveller. These people do not want to see Europe restored to health. They want Europe to be weak and disturbed, because they think that the more wretched the people are the greater chance for the Communists. They have a vested interest in chaos.”
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) first seen 1948 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to a rally of agricultural workers in Skegness (27 June 1948), quoted in The Times (28 June 1948), p. 4
“[Y]ou are punishing thousands of innocent people and injuring your country. Who advised you to do this? Not people of great influence, but just a small nucleus who have been instructed for political reasons to take advantage of every little disturbance that takes place to cause the disruption of British economy, British trade, to undermine the Government and to destroy Britain's position... Your clear duty to yourselves, to your fellow citizens, and to your country is to return to work.”
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) first seen 1948 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Broadcast on the London dock strike (28 June 1948), quoted in The Times (29 June 1948), p. 4
“To-day the most comprehensive system of social security ever introduced into any country would start in Britain. The four Acts—National Insurance, Industrial Injuries, National Assistance, and National Health Service—represented the main body of the army of social security... We cannot create a scheme which gives the nation a whole more than they put into it, and it is always the general level of production that settles our standard of material well-being. Only higher output can give us more of the things we all need. This will decide the real value of the money payments.”
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Recorded in: Broadcast (4 July 1948), quoted in The Times (5 July 1948), p. 6
“In every country in the world the Communist Party was out to hinder and to wreck... countries behind the Iron Curtain longed to come into the Marshall aid plan, which the Communist Party had decided against... They did not care what happened to the workers. They are only concerned with spreading what they call their own ideology.”
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) first seen 1949 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Walthamstow (11 January 1949), quoted in The Times (12 January 1949), p. 4
“The Atlantic Treaty is not aggressive. It is purely defensive. Those who attack it as offensive do so from a bad conscience. They take just the same line as the Nazis did when every attempt by the nations to get together was denounced as the encirclement of Germany. We seek by the pact to gain for the nations a sense of security which they so ardently desire. We seek by the organization of security to make the world safe against aggression and by pooling of strength to reduce the burden of armaments.”
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) first seen 1949 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Glasgow (10 April 1949), quoted in The Times (11 April 1949), p. 4
“The responsibility for dividing the world rests squarely on the shoulders of the Kremlin. We do not give up hope of reuniting the world, but it can only be done if the Communists give up their ideological imperialism, their attempt to bring the whole world into line, to confine every single person within the straitjacket of Marx-Leninism. We in the Labour movement do not believe in this dead dull uniformity. On the contrary, we believe that variety is of the essence of a free society.”
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Recorded in: Speech in Glasgow (10 April 1949), quoted in The Times (11 April 1949), p. 4
“Our future as an industrial and trading nation depends on the success of our export drive. Increased production and increased exports are vital to the health of the shipping industry... Our fundamental need is still increased production to enable us to increase our volume of exports and so pay for our imports... That is the need of the country to-day.”
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Recorded in: Speech to the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom at the Dorchester Hotel (13 October 1949), quoted in The Times (14 October 1949), p. 4
“In the coming months the need is for the people of this country to do two things. First, to increase the national production; and, secondly, to exercise restraint in demands for increased incomes and self-control in expenditure... I am confident that in peace just as we did in war, Britain will conquer them by determination, hard work, and by the cooperation of all.”
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Recorded in: Speech to the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom at the Dorchester Hotel (13 October 1949), quoted in The Times (14 October 1949), p. 4
“We are having to make some heavy reductions in expenditure... They amount to about £250m. This is a very large sum... There has been some excessive and unnecessary resort to doctors for prescriptions. This must be checked. A charge, not exceeding one shilling, for each prescription will now be imposed. Arrangements will be made to relieve old age pensioners of this charge.”
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Recorded in: Broadcast (24 October 1949), quoted in The Times (25 October 1949), p. 2
“...the Welfare State can only endure if it is built on a sound economic foundation. If you are in a job and have to-day through national insurance a greater sense of security than ever before, remember its continuance depends on what you do. Don't leave it to the other man. I have told you that the position is critical. We have a great opportunity to set things right. Let us seize it.”
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Recorded in: Broadcast (24 October 1949), quoted in The Times (25 October 1949), p. 2
“We on this side are not prepared to accept the principle that the most vital economic forces of this country should be handed over to an authority that is utterly undemocratic and is responsible to nobody.”
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) first seen 1950 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in the House of Commons on the Schuman Plan (27 June 1950)
“Aggression has started again in the Far East. The attack by the armed forces of North Korea on South Korea has been denounced as an act of aggression by the United Nations. No excuses, no propaganda by Communists, no introduction of other factors can get over this fact. Here is a case of aggression. If the aggressor gets away with it, aggressors all over the world will be encouraged. The same results that led to the Second World War will follow; and another world war may result.”
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Recorded in: Broadcast on the Korean War (30 July 1950), quoted in The Times (31 July 1950), p. 4
“I would ask you all to be on your guard against the enemy within. There are those who would stop at nothing to injure our economy and our defence. The price of liberty is still eternal vigilance. I know what a fine part the trade unionists of this country have played in our recovery effort. When they are asked to take unofficial action, which may hurt this country, let them just consider carefully whether the motives of those who ask them to strike are really concerned with the interests of the workers.”
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Recorded in: Broadcast (30 July 1950), quoted in The Times (31 July 1950), p. 4
“To ensure peace we needed stronger armed forces as a deterrent to aggression.”
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Recorded in: Broadcast (30 August 1950), quoted in The Times (31 August 1950), p. 4
“You see our new towns, our smiling countryside. I am proud of our achievements. There is an enormous amount more to do. Remember that we are a great crusading body, armed with a fervent spirit for the reign of righteousness on earth. Let us go forward into this fight in the spirit of William Blake: "I will not cease from mental strife/Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand/Till we have built Jerusalem/In England's green and pleasant land".”
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) first seen 1951 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the Labour Party Conference in Scarborough (1 October 1951), quoted in The Times (2 October 1951), p. 4
“Socialism was the only means of freeing the world from war and poverty. Socialism stood as a third alternative to a barbaric Communism and capitalism in a state of decay. Communism was a falsification of the principles of Socialism.”
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the Swedish Social Democratic Party congress in Stockholm (5 June 1952), quoted in The Times (6 June 1952), p. 5
“I think that public opinion today likes a certain amount of pageantry. It is a great mistake to make government too dull. That, I think, was the fault of the German Republic after the First World War. They were very drab and dull; the trouble was that they let the devil get all the best tunes. Therefore, we on this side of the Committee believe that it is right to have a certain amount of pageantry, because it pleases people, and it also counteracts a tendency to other forms of excitement.”
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Recorded in: Speech in the House of Commons on the civil list (9 July 1952)