Stanley Baldwin Quotes
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A lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.
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The world was never more unsafe for democracy then it is today.
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Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies.
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The real need of the day is moral and spiritual rearmament. God's Living Spirit can transcend conflicting political systems, can reconcile order and freedom, can rekindle true patriotism, can unite all citizens in the service of the nation, and all nations in the service of mankind.
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I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.
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I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived.
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England totally disarmed and an easy prey to hostile forces! Can you think of anything more likely to excite cupidity and hostile intention? We should sink to the level of a fifth rate Power, our Colonies would be stripped from us, our commerce would decline, famine and unemployment would stalk the land... I have yet to learn that the cause of peace can be served by rendering our country impotent.
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Once I leave, I leave. I am not going to speak to the man on the bridge, and I am not going to spit on the deck.
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You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.
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Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.
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The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.
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This country to-day is the last stronghold of freedom, standing like a rock in a tide that is threatened to submerge the world.
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The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.
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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
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I am a man of peace. I am longing and working and praying for peace, but I will not surrender the safety and security of the British constitution. You placed me in power eighteen months ago by the largest majority accorded to any party for many, many years. Have I done anything to forfeit that confidence? Cannot you trust me to ensure a square deal to secure even justice between man and man?
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No British Prime Minister of the last seventy years has been more harshly stereotyped than Stanley Baldwin. No one has been so much ignored, after the initial judgements of contemporaries had been made.
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Just as the results of inebriety are most painful to the habitually sober, and just as the greatest saints have often been the greatest sinners, so, when the first class brain does something stupid, the stupidity of that occasion is colossal.
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War would end if the dead could return.
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I think it is well . . . for the man in the street to realise there is no power on earth that can protect him from bombing, whatever people may tell him. The bomber will always get through. The only defence is in offence, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you want to save yourselves.
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Do not fear or misunderstand when the Government say they are looking to our defences. I give you my word that there will be no great armaments.
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A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.
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I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.
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"Magna Carta is the Law: Let the King look out." So it has always been with tyrants among our own people: when the King was tyrant, let him look out. And it has always been the same, and will be the same, whether the tyrant be the Barons, whether the tyrant be the Church, whether he be demagogue or dictator - let them look out.
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Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree - very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.