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. — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
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
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 Image
The die-hard opinions of George III couched in the language of Edmund Burke. — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth. — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
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 Image
The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion. — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions. — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived. — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
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 Image
Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree-very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it. — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
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 Image
