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1867–1947 England
Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley KG PC (3 August 1867 – 14 December 1947) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on three separate occasions (1923–24, 1924–29 and 1935–37).
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To me, England is the country, and the country is England.
The political career properly viewed is really a kind of Ministry.
There is a saying as old as the Greeks that it is more important to form good habits than to frame good laws.
It is to moralise the world that we all desire.
A free trade unionism is a bulwark of popular liberty.
Tom Mosley is a cad and a wrong 'un and they will find it out.
I am just one of yourselves, who has been called to special work for the country at this time.
We have demonstrated to the world in actual practice that difficulties can be resolved by discussion as they cannot be resolved by force.
The fortunes of a nation are determined above everything by the quality of its people.
Nationalism can take on some very ugly shapes. It looks as if as many crimes will be committed in its name as in the name of Religion or of Liberty.
No country is more beautiful than England.
The great task of this generation, in my view, is to save democracy, to preserve it and to inspire it.
A dynamic force is a very terrible thing; it may crush you, but it is not necessarily right.
All service ranks the same, according to the spirit in which it is performed.
The children of such a philosophy can only bring damnation to this country.
The stock is the same as it ever was, and it is as fine as it ever was.
That there should be wars between nations who learned their first lessons in citizenship from the same mother seems to me fratricidal insanity.
Socialism would bring him back from contract to status.
One of the weaknesses of a democracy, a system of which I am trying to make the best, is that until it is right up against it it will never face the truth.
Dictatorship is like a giant beech tree—very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.
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