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> [I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-baldwin/i-would-rather-be-an-opportunist-and-float-than-go-to-the-bottom-with/)

[Stanley Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-baldwin/)

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## Other authors on Opportunist

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## 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/)

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