Stanley Baldwin
Stanley Baldwin
Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC, JP, FRSwas a British Conservative politician, who dominated the government in his country between the two world wars. Three times Prime Minister, he is the only premier to have served under three monarchs...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth3 August 1867
europe britain bounds
Whether we like it or not we are consideably bound to Europe.
responsibility acceptance men
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 the constantly-changing policies, desires, personal wishes, and personal likes and dislikes of two men? What the proprietorship of those papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.
government giving armament
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.
spiritual real order
The real need of the day is ... moral and spiritual rearmament ... God's Living Spirit can transcend conflicting political systems, can reconcile order and freedom, can rekindle true patriotism, can unite all citizens in the service of the nation, and all nations in the service of mankind.
years judgement lasts
No British Prime Minister of the last seventy years has been more harshly stereotyped than Stanley Baldwin. No one has been so much ignored, after the initial judgements of contemporaries had been made.
wish ill stanley
I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived.
political politics complaining
You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.
war men done
A lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.
men bridges speak
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.
country thinking land
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 sink to the level of a fifth rate Power, our Colonies would be stripped from us, our commerce would decline, famine and unemployment would stalk the land... I have yet to learn that the cause of peace can be served by rendering our country impotent.
trust sisterhood men
I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
children mean enemy
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 save yourselves.
kings book reading
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.
peace war return
War would end if the dead could return.