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
country thinking land
England totally disarmed and an easy prey to hostile forces! Can you think of anything more likely to excite cupidity and hostile intention? We should sink to the level of a fifth rate Power, our Colonies would be stripped from us, our commerce would decline, famine and unemployment would stalk the land... I have yet to learn that the cause of peace can be served by rendering our country impotent.
trust sisterhood men
I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
children mean enemy
The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.
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.
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.