Stanley Baldwin Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.”
-- Stanley Baldwin

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“The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.”
-- Stanley Baldwin

Source : In G. M. Young 'Stanley Baldwin' (1952) ch. 13

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“War would end if the dead could return.”
-- Stanley Baldwin

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“Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree-very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.”
-- Stanley Baldwin

Source : Broadcast from London on March 06, 1934. "This Torch of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses". Book by Stanley Baldwin, p. 21, 1935.

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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.”
-- Stanley Baldwin

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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.”
-- Stanley Baldwin

Source : Speech in House of Commons, 10 Nov. 1932

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“I wish for many reasons flying had never been invented.”
-- Stanley Baldwin

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“I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.”
-- Stanley Baldwin

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“Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.”
-- Stanley Baldwin

Source : 1931 Speech,18 Mar. Rudyard Kipling, Baldwin's cousin, is alleged to be the original author of this famous phrase. Harold Macmillan claimed that the Duke of Devonshire (his father-in-law) responded 'Good God, that's done it, he's lost us the tarts.'

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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.”
-- Stanley Baldwin

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“The world was never more unsafe for democracy then it is today.”
-- Stanley Baldwin

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“The die-hard opinions of George III couched in the language of Edmund Burke.”
-- Stanley Baldwin

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“The work of a Prime Minister is the loneliest job in the world.”
-- Stanley Baldwin

Source : 1927 Speech, 9 Jan.

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“There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world, and blowing as strongly in Asia as elsewhere.”
-- Stanley Baldwin

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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?”
-- Stanley Baldwin

Source : Speech on BBC radio on the General Strike on May 08, 1926. "Baldwin: A Biography". Book by Keith Middlemas and John Barnes, p. 415, 1969.

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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.”
-- Stanley Baldwin

Source : "Semi-detached Idealists: The British Peace Movement and International Relations". Book by Martin Ceadel, p. 271, 2000.

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“Whether we like it or not we are consideably bound to Europe.”
-- Stanley Baldwin

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“The papers conducted by Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook are not newspapers in the ordinary acceptance of the term. They are engines of propaganda for the constantly-changing policies, desires, personal wishes, and personal likes and dislikes of two men? What the proprietorship of those papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.”
-- Stanley Baldwin

Source : 1931 Speech,18 Mar. Rudyard Kipling, Baldwin's cousin, is alleged to be the original author of this famous phrase. Harold Macmillan claimed that the Duke of Devonshire (his father-in-law) responded 'Good God, that's done it, he's lost us the tarts.'

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“The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.”
-- Stanley Baldwin

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“I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.”
-- Stanley Baldwin

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“A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.”
-- Stanley Baldwin

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“I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.”
-- Stanley Baldwin

Source : "Brain Box". Book by Charles Phillips, p. 110, 2006.

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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.”
-- Stanley Baldwin

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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.”
-- Stanley Baldwin

Source : In Harold Nicolson Diary (1967) 21 July 1943

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“The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.”
-- Stanley Baldwin

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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.”
-- Stanley Baldwin

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“Whatever failures may have come to parliamentary government in countries which have not those traditions, and where it is not a natural growth, that is no proof that parliamentary government has failed.”
-- Stanley Baldwin

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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.”
-- Stanley Baldwin

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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.”
-- Stanley Baldwin

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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.”
-- Stanley Baldwin

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