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… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
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… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
Do not fear or misunderstand when the Government say they are looking to our defences. I give you my word that there will be… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share
The die-hard opinions of George III couched in the language of Edmund Burke. — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share
I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth. — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share
The bomber will always get through. The only defense is in offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share
Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions. — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share
I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived. — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share
Whatever failures may have come to parliamentary government in countries which have not those traditions, and where it is not a natural growth, that… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share
Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree-very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it. — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share
No British Prime Minister of the last seventy years has been more harshly stereotyped than Stanley Baldwin. No one has been so much ignored,… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share
A lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war. — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share
A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share
I think it is well . . . for the man in the street to realise there is no power on earth that can… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share
