Top 43 Quotes About Stanley Baldwin
#1. Kennedy echoed Stanley Baldwin that a democracy is always two years behind a dictator.
Scott Farris
#2. I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived.
Stanley Baldwin
#3. 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.
Stanley Baldwin
#4. I wish for many reasons flying had never been invented.
Stanley Baldwin
#5. I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
V.S. Naipaul
#6. 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.
Stanley Baldwin
#7. 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.
Stanley Baldwin
#8. I think everybody's crazy, and if I'm the one being a little direct about it, that's fine by me.
Ezra Miller
#9. A lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.
Stanley Baldwin
#10. In the marvelous month of May when all the buds were bursting, then in my heart did love arise. In the marvelous month of May when all the birds were singing, then did I reveal to her my yearning and longing.
Heinrich Heine
#12. 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.
Stanley Baldwin
#13. A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
Stanley Baldwin
#14. Whether we like it or not we are consideably bound to Europe.
Stanley Baldwin
#15. I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
Stanley Baldwin
#16. If I didn't stop falling down, my body was going to go on strike and refuse all movement.
Jaymin Eve
#17. Being alive is inexplicable, I thought. Consciousness itself is inexplicable. There is nothing ordinary in the world.
Siri Hustvedt
#18. 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.
Stanley Baldwin
#19. 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.
Stanley Baldwin
#20. I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.
Stanley Baldwin
#21. Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival.
Rebecca West
#22. For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.
Milan Kundera
#23. You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.
Stanley Baldwin
#25. I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.
Stanley Baldwin
#26. 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.
Stanley Baldwin
#27. 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.
Stanley Baldwin
#28. 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.
Stanley Baldwin
#29. 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.
Stanley Baldwin
#30. It's about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy and how it changed the world, but also about creating a vital and beautiful city of the 21st century.
Daniel Libeskind
#31. Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.
Walt Whitman
#32. 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.
Stanley Baldwin
#33. The die-hard opinions of George III couched in the language of Edmund Burke.
Stanley Baldwin
#34. I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.
Stanley Baldwin
#35. Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree-very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.
Stanley Baldwin
#36. Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.
Stanley Baldwin
#37. He sprawls on the sand, quietly laughing. His laugh is weak and in need of air but it may still be the greatest sound I've ever heard. It's full of warmth and genuine mirth, as only a living, breathing - um - person can have.
Susan Ee
#38. The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.
Stanley Baldwin
#39. The world was never more unsafe for democracy then it is today.
Stanley Baldwin
#40. Maybe that was the problem," Jacob said softly. "Don't we all need to feel needed? That we'd be missed if we were gone?
Justina Chen
#42. Mathematics is pure language - the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for every thought or concept that can be formulated in its terms.
Alfred Adler
#43. 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.
Stanley Baldwin
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