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Clement Richard Attlee bol bývalý britský predseda vlády v rokoch 1945 až 1951. Attlee bol členom strany labouristov. Po druhej svetovej vojne vyhral voľby nad protikandidátom Winstonom Churchillom. Počas jeho vlády riadil ekonomiku krajiny podľa Keynesovskej politiky. V tomto období došlo aj dekolonizácií britského impéria. Zomrel vo veku 84 rokov na zápal pľúc.

Historicky stál Attlee najdlhšie na čele strany Labouristov. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. január 1883 – 8. október 1967
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Clement Attlee: Citáty v angličtine

“We are seeking to build up in this country a system of society in which there shall be freedom from want. We are seeking to join with others in extending that freedom from want all over the world, but we also seek to give to all peoples freedom from fear. The freedom from fear of war is not yet lifted from the men and women of the world. We are doing our utmost to make the United Nations Organization the instrument for banishing the fear of war from the world. But there are many countries to-day where there are other fears that oppress. Personal freedom is still far from complete in many countries. Freedom of conscience is still denied to many. Freedom of speech and freedom of the Press are still unknown in most areas of the world. A system of society that denies all of these other freedoms is not socialism, but only a form of collectivism.”

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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
Prime Minister

“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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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
Prime Minister

“During the war we had to stop producing the everyday things which we need in peacetime. We had to concentrate on war production and the bare necessities of existence. The natural result is that to-day we are short of the things which we need. … You may ask why cannot we get what we want from abroad? The answer is that we can only get it if we can pay for it. Before the war many of the things which we got from abroad—food and raw material—were paid for by the interest on foreign investments, and by services rendered by us to people in other countries. During the war we had to sell our foreign investments to pay for the arms, food, and other things we needed. Apart from any temporary relief we may get by loans from our friends across the Atlantic, we can only buy from abroad now if we can pay by exporting goods or rendering services.”

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Broadcast (3 March 1946), quoted in The Times (4 March 1946), p. 4
Prime Minister

“We of the Labour Party reject policies and measures which failed the nation then and will fail the nation now. We want to lay the foundations of a new and better Britain worthy of our great people. That is why we propose in the interests of the whole nation that the community should become the master of its economic progress and prosperity, instead of leaving control in private hands to be used primarily for the private advantage of a few. In short, we are standing for the common weal. But we need political power to enable us to give practical effect in Parliament to our great forward-looking policies. The nation has now the chance to give Labour the necessary power to do the job, and I appeal to the electors in the constituency which you are contesting to make certain of electing you to the new House of Commons.”

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Message to Labour candidates, quoted in The Times (29 June 1945), p. 2
Leader of the Opposition

“I joined the socialist movement because I did not like the kind of society we had and wanted something better.”

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As It Happened, 1954. Also cited in Anthony Crosland, The Future of Socialism (1956), (p.116).
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