Stanley Baldwin Quotes

I wish for many reasons flying had never been invented.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world, and blowing as strongly in Asia as elsewhere.

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

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.

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

I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

War would end if the dead could return.