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
opinion language hard
The die-hard opinions of George III couched in the language of Edmund Burke.
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There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world, and blowing as strongly in Asia as elsewhere.
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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.
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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, so, when the first class brain does something stupid, the stupidity of that occasion is colossal.
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Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree-very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.
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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.
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I wish for many reasons flying had never been invented.
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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 the British constitution. You placed me in power eighteen months ago by the largest majority accorded to any party for many, many years. Have I done anything to forfeit that confidence? Cannot you trust me to ensure a square deal to secure even justice between man and man?
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You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.
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.
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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.
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The bomber will always get through. The only defense is in offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly that the enemy if you want to save yourselves.