Stanley Baldwin Quotes

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

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

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

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.

War would end if the dead could return.

I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

This country to-day [is] the last stronghold of freedom, standing like a rock in a tide that is threatened to submerge the world.

I wish for many reasons flying had never been invented.

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

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.

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

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.

Then comes Winston with his hundred horsepower mind and what can I do?