--- title: "2 Air power Quotes By Stanley Baldwin" description: "2 Air power quotes by Stanley Baldwin. Plus more from Stanley Baldwin and more Air power sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d9/stanley-baldwin-16332_air-power_i-think-it-is-well-for-the-man-in-the-st_1579896.png" --- > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-baldwin/i-think-it-is-well-for-the-man-in-the-street-to-realise-there-is-no/) [Stanley Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-baldwin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d9/stanley-baldwin-16332_air-power_i-think-it-is-well-for-the-man-in-the-st_1579896.png) > [I wish for many reasons flying had never been invented.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-baldwin/i-wish-for-many-reasons-flying-had-never-been-invented/) [Stanley Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-baldwin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91d/stanley-baldwin-16332_air-power_i-wish-for-many-reasons-flying-had-never_3071397.png) ## Other authors on Air power - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b025/author-winston-churchill-96197.jpg) Winston Churchill 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/air-power/winston-churchill/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-giulio-douhet-38734.jpg) Giulio Douhet 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/air-power/giulio-douhet/) - [Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/air-power/sir-arthur-harris-1st-baronet/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-billie-burke-18091.jpg) Adolf Galland 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/air-power/adolf-galland/) ## More by Stanley Baldwin > [Do not fear or misunderstand when the Government say they are looking to our defences. I give you my word that there will be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-baldwin/do-not-fear-or-misunderstand-when-the-government-say-they-are-looking/) [Stanley Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-baldwin/) > [The die-hard opinions of George III couched in the language of Edmund Burke.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-baldwin/the-die-hard-opinions-of-george-iii-couched-in-the-language-of-edmund/) [Stanley Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-baldwin/) > [I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-baldwin/i-am-not-struck-so-much-by-the-diversity-of-testimony-as-by-the-many/) [Stanley Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-baldwin/) > [The bomber will always get through. The only defense is in offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-baldwin/the-bomber-will-always-get-through-the-only-defense-is-in-offense/) [Stanley Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-baldwin/) > [The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-baldwin/the-attainment-of-an-ideal-is-often-the-beginning-of-a-disillusion/) [Stanley Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-baldwin/) > [Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-baldwin/had-the-employers-of-past-generations-all-of-them-dealt-fairly-with/) [Stanley Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-baldwin/) > [The world was never more unsafe for democracy then it is today.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-baldwin/the-world-was-never-more-unsafe-for-democracy-then-it-is-today/) [Stanley Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-baldwin/) > [I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-baldwin/i-wish-stanley-baldwin-no-ill-but-it-would-have-been-much-better-if/) [Stanley Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-baldwin/) > [Whatever failures may have come to parliamentary government in countries which have not those traditions, and where it is not a natural growth, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-baldwin/whatever-failures-may-have-come-to-parliamentary-government-in/) [Stanley Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-baldwin/) > [Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree-very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-baldwin/dictatorship-is-like-a-giant-beech-tree-very-magnificent-to-look-at/) [Stanley Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-baldwin/) > [Whether we like it or not we are consideably bound to Europe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-baldwin/whether-we-like-it-or-not-we-are-consideably-bound-to-europe/) [Stanley Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-baldwin/) > [No British Prime Minister of the last seventy years has been more harshly stereotyped than Stanley Baldwin. No one has been so much ignored,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-baldwin/no-british-prime-minister-of-the-last-seventy-years-has-been-more/) [Stanley Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-baldwin/) > [A lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-baldwin/a-lot-of-hard-faced-men-who-look-as-if-they-had-done-very-well-out-of/) [Stanley Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-baldwin/) > [A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-baldwin/a-statesman-wants-courage-and-a-statesman-wants-vision-but-believe-me/) [Stanley Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-baldwin/) > [I think it is well . . . for the man in the street to realise there is no power on earth that can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-baldwin/i-think-it-is-well-for-the-man-in-the-street-to-realise-there-is-no/) [Stanley Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-baldwin/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/air-power/stanley-baldwin/#itemlist", "name": "2 Air power Quotes By Stanley Baldwin", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "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. 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