Rather Sink Quotes by Stanley Baldwin

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

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