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
children means quickly save women
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.
cliffs england frontiers longer since
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.
mind winston
Then comes Winston with his hundred-horse-power mind and what can I do?
patience believe political
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.
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.
opinion language hard
The die-hard opinions of George III couched in the language of Edmund Burke.
freedom wind asia
There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world, and blowing as strongly in Asia as elsewhere.
party men squares
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?
politics attainment disillusion
The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.
military democracy world
The world was never more unsafe for democracy then it is today.
pain stupid class
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.
flying wish air-power
I wish for many reasons flying had never been invented.
tree political looks
Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree-very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.