Stanley Baldwin Quotes
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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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The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.
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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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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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The die-hard opinions of George III couched in the language of Edmund Burke.
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I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.
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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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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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I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
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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.
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The work of a Prime Minister is the loneliest job in the world.
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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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Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.