Defense Offense Quotes 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…

— Stanley Baldwin

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

— Stanley Baldwin

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

— 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…

— Stanley Baldwin

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

— Stanley Baldwin

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

— Stanley Baldwin

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

— Stanley Baldwin

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

— 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…

— Stanley Baldwin

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

— Stanley Baldwin

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

— 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,…

— Stanley Baldwin

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

— 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…

— Stanley Baldwin

I think it is well . . . for the man in the street to realise there is no power on earth that can…

— Stanley Baldwin