Stanley Baldwin Quotes

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• I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Christian Inspirational, Swim

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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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  Principles, Necks, Opportunist

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• Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Responsibility, Age, Harlots

  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.

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  Inspirational, Political, Politics

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• The world was never more unsafe for democracy then it is today.

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  Military, Democracy, 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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  Past, Men, Generations

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• I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

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  Trust, Sisterhood, Men

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

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• Whether we like it or not we are consideably bound to Europe.

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  Europe, Britain, Bounds

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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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  Children, Mean, Men

  Speech in House of Commons, 10 Nov. 1932

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• War would end if the dead could return.

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  Peace, Military, War

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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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  Spiritual, Real, Order

  The Times, September 10, 1938.

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• The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Intelligent, Gentleman, Gents

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

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• A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

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  Funny, Truth, Tired

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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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  Kings, Book, Reading

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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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  Tree, Political, Giants

  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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• 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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  Country, Light, Flames

  Stanley Baldwin's speech at University of Durham to the Ashridge Fellowship, as quoted in The Times (December 3, 1934) and in "Christian Conservatives and the Totalitarian Challenge, 1933-40" by Philip Williamson in "The English Historical Review", Volume 115, No. 462 (pp. 607-642), June 2000.

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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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  Diversity, Testimony

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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.

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  Responsibility, Acceptance, Men

  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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• 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

  Party, Men, Squares

  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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• The work of a Prime Minister is the loneliest job in the world.

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  Jobs, World, Prime

  1927 Speech, 9 Jan.

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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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  Wish, Ill, Stanley

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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

  Country, Thinking, Land

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

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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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  Years, Judgement, Lasts

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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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  Kings, Law, Tyrants

  Speech at Westminster Hall on July 04, 1935. "This Torch of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses". Book by Stanley Baldwin, p. 4, 1935.

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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.

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  Children, Mean, Enemy

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