Stanley Baldwin Quotes
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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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Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree - very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.
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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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If I did not believe that our work was done in the faith and hope that at some day, it may be a million years hence, the Kingdom of God will spread over the whole world, I would have no hope, I could do no work, and I would give my office over this morning to anyone who would take it.
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I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.
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Whether we like it or not we are consideably bound to Europe.
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The die-hard opinions of George III couched in the language of Edmund Burke.
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I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
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I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.
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There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world, and blowing as strongly in Asia as elsewhere.
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When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress.
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The work of a Prime Minister is the loneliest job in the world.
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Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.
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There is no country... where there are not somewhere lovers of freedom who look to this country to carry the torch and keep it burning bright until such time as they may again be able to light their extinguished torches at our flame. We owe it not only to our own people but to the world to preserve our soul for that.