Quotes from Stanley Baldwin

Once I leave, I leave. I am not going to speak to the man on the bridge, and I am not going to spit on the deck.

I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.

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

Do not fear or misunderstand when the Government say they are looking to our defences. I give you my word that there will be no great armaments.

When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress.

Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

I wish for many reasons flying had never been invented.

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.

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 - patience.

War would end if the dead could return.

I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.

When you think about the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover. You think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies today.

You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing 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.

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 no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies.

Since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine.

Then comes Winston with his hundred horsepower mind and what can I do?

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

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

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

You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.