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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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What the proprietorship of these papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility — the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.
What happens to all the laws placed on the statute book? If half the hopes of their promoters had been realised, would not the millennium have arrived ere this?
To-day when we think of Empire we think of it primarily as an instrument of world peace.
We none of us know what is going on in that strange man's mind.
Members of our party were fighting for the working classes when Members or the ancestors of Members opposite were shackled with laissez faire.
We are not all equal, and never shall be; the true postulate of democracy is not equality but the faith that every man and woman is worth while.
The greatest crime to our own people is to be afraid to tell the truth … the old frontiers are gone.
I get an obsession that everybody is out for what they can get during the war and it makes me sick.
A lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.
It is characteristic of the British Public to look askance at any deliberate, systematic attempt to rationalise our institutions.
Perpetual strife can only lead to poverty and oppression, and peace alone can remove these two spectres of poverty and oppression.
Perfect governments are only to be found where the prisons are full.
Better to doubt methodically than to think capriciously.
But our race is not a raw and untried race. The country, true to its finest traditions, kept its head, and by keeping its head won the admiration, the reluctant admiration, of the world.
As we study [the British Empire's] destiny, we are bound to think of it less as a human achievement than as an instrument of Divine Providence for the promotion of the progress of mankind.
The Conservatives can't talk of class war: they started it.
I give you my word that there will be no great armaments.
Rather should they have looked deep into the hearts of their own people, relying on that common sense and political sense that has never failed our race.
Freedom for common men, which was to have been the fruit of victory, is once more in jeopardy in our own land because it has been taken away from the common men of other lands.
I owe a great deal of my public and private life to my Nonconformist ancestry.
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