Stanley Baldwin Quotes

• 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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• You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.

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  In Harold Nicolson Diary (1967) 21 July 1943

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

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• The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.

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

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

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

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

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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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• 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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  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?

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  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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• Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.

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  Men  

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

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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.

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  Men  

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

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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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• 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.

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  Country   Thinking   Land  

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

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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.

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

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  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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• 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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• 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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  Men  

  Speech in House of Commons, 10 Nov. 1932

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

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