Stanley Baldwin Quotes - Page 2

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

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

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.

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

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 wish for many reasons flying had never been invented.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.