Stanley Baldwin Quotes

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• I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
• I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.
• I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.
• A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
• The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to…
• You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.
• Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you…
• The world was never more unsafe for democracy then it is today.
• Just as the results of inebriety are most painful to the habitually sober, and just as the greatest saints have often been the greatest sinners,…
• Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree-very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.
• 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…
• I think it is well . . . for the man in the street to realise there is no power on earth that can protect…
• I wish for many reasons flying had never been invented.
• I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.
• Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.
• The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.
• 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…
• 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…
• Whether we like it or not we are consideably bound to Europe.
• The papers conducted by Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook are not newspapers in the ordinary acceptance of the term. They are engines of propaganda for…

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