Stanley Baldwin Quotes - Page 2

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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

  Children, Mean, Enemy

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• A lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.

  Stanley Baldwin

  War, Men, Looks

  In J. M. Keynes 'Economic Consequences of the Peace' (1919) ch. 5

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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

  Country, Government, Growth

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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

  Country, Rocks, World

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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.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Men, Bridges, Speak

  "Gordon Brown has one last service to perform for Labour" by Martin Kettle, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2014.

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• I wish for many reasons flying had never been invented.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Flying, Wish, Air Power

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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.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Morning, Believe, Years

  Speech to the British and Foreign Bible Society on May 02, 1928. "This Torch of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses". Book by Stanley Baldwin, pp. 92-93, 1935.

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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

  Pain, Stupid, Class

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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

  Lying, Thinking, Air

  Hansard 30 July 1934, col. 2339

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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

  Freedom, Wind, World

  1934 Speech, Dec.

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• The die-hard opinions of George III couched in the language of Edmund Burke.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Opinion, Language, Dies

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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

  Government, Giving, Armament

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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

  Patience, Time, Believe

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