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
mind winston
Then comes Winston with his hundred-horse-power mind and what can I do?
christian-inspirational swim
I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.
intelligent gentleman gents
The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.
necks principles opportunist
I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.
funny truth tired
A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
diversity testimony
I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.
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.
politics attainment disillusion
The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.
responsibility age harlots
Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.
morning believe years
If I did not believe that our work was done in the faith and hope that at some day, it may be a million years hence, the Kingdom of God will spread over the whole world, I would have no hope, I could do no work, and I would give my office over this morning to anyone who would take it.
kings law tyrants
Magna Carta is the Law: Let the King look out."So it has always been with tyrants among our own people: when the King was tyrant, let him look out. And it has always been the same, and will be the same, whether the tyrant be the Barons, whether the tyrant be the Church, whether he be demagogue or dictator - let them look out.
military democracy world
The world was never more unsafe for democracy then it is today.
opinion language hard
The die-hard opinions of George III couched in the language of Edmund Burke.