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
past men unions
Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.
responsibility age harlots
Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.
funny truth tired
A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
necks principles opportunist
I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.
children mean men
I think it is well . . . for the man in the street to realise there is no power on earth that can protect him from bombing, whatever people may tell him. The bomber will always get through. The only defence is in offence, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you want to save yourselves.
diversity testimony
I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.
intelligent gentleman gents
The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.
christian-inspirational swim
I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.
country light flames
There is no country ... where there are not somewhere lovers of freedom who look to this country to carry the torch and keep it burning bright until such time as they may again be able to light their extinguished torches at our flame. We owe it not only to our own people but to the world to preserve our soul for that.
lying thinking air
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.
country rocks world
This country to-day [is] the last stronghold of freedom, standing like a rock in a tide that is threatened to submerge the world.
jobs world ministers
The work of a Prime Minister is the loneliest job in the world.
country government growth
Whatever failures may have come to parliamentary government in countries which have not those traditions, and where it is not a natural growth, that is no proof that parliamentary government has failed.