Stanley Baldwin Quotes (20 Quotes)

The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.

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.

A lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.

When you think about the defence of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover. You think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies today.

Then comes Winston with his hundred-horse-power mind and what can I do.

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

War would end if the dead could return.

The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.

You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.

The work of a Prime Minister is the loneliest job in the world.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.

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.

I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles round my neck.