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
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.
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.