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Stanley Baldwin Quotes

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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It may be the communist tyranny; it may be tyranny from the other end. But if you cannot evolve a sound and sane democracy, that will be the fate of the country.

The only argument which appealed to the dictators was that of force.

This massing of huge armaments on the Continent, even the work that we are doing—the money would be far better used for the progress of the world.

England is the natural home of liberty and free institutions, and in her endeavour to secure these blessings for the world no country ought to be quicker than she in acknowledging her debt to Hellas.

I am a man of peace. I am longing and working and praying for peace, but I will not surrender the safety and security of the British constitution.

My tongue, not my pen, is my instrument.

On June 8th there was a little conference in London, and the French and Germans laid their colours on our Cenotaph. When men can do that there should be no more fighting.

I think it is well also for the man in the street to realise that there is no power on earth that can protect him from being bombed. Whatever people may tell him, the bomber will always get through.

The die-hard opinions of George III couched in the language of Edmund Burke.

On Winston Churchill's speech against the Government of India Bill (1935)

What we have to do...is to humanise the system of limited liability.

Let us resolve once more that we can best keep his memory bright by confirming our own resolution that government of the people by the people shall never perish on this earth.

We live under the shadow of the last War and its memories still sicken us. We remember what modern warfare is, with no glory in it but the heroism of man.

I would say: "England! Steady! Look where you are going! Human hands were given us to clasp, and not to be raised against one another in fratricidal strife."

I am sure that none among us can think upon this Commonwealth of British nations, which men and women of our own race have created, without a stirring of our deepest feelings.

Empire Day message (1925)

Her life is an artificial life, and anything that tends to upset it, to break those cords and those strings, might ruin our country in a thousandth part of the time it has taken to build it up.

I knew that I had been chosen as God's instrument for the work of the healing of the nation.

I always dreaded Roosevelt's experiments and I think there will be an appalling mess up in America in a few months.

Those of us who love the country and country things feel in our bones the urbanisation of our land and the need that something should be done to preserve our birds and our flowers.

Love of one's country has been perverted into hatred of our neighbour's country by the preaching of lop-sided intellectuals, who themselves generally manage to escape the martyrdom they provide for others.

I am quite content in these circumstances to be called a coward if I have done what I could, in accordance with the views of every country in Europe, to keep my own people out of war.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Stanley Baldwin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.