Stanley Baldwin Quotes

• When the call came for me to form a Government, one of my first thoughts was that it should be a Government of which Harrow would not be ashamed.

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

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• I shall be but a short time tonight. I have seldom spoken with greater regret, for my lips are not yet unsealed.Were these troubles over I would make a case, and I guarantee that not a man would go into the lobby against us.

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

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• When you think about the defence of England, you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover.You think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies today.

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• I think it is well also for the man in the street to realize that there is no power on earth that can protect him from being bombed.Whatever people will 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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• The papers conducted by Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaver brook 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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• The work of a Prime Minister is the loneliest job in the world.

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• There are three classes which need sanctuary more than others—birds, wild flowers, and Prime Ministers.

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

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• I met Curzon in Downing Street, and received the sort of greeting a corpse would give an undertaker.

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

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• The bomber will always get through. The only defense is in offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly that the enemy if you want to save yourselves.

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• 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.

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• I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without 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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• 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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Stanley Baldwin (23)

Birth:	3rd August, 1867
Death:	14th December, 1947
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Politician

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