Stanley Baldwin quotes - page 7

Our most valuable real estate is our character. (Stanley Baldwin)
Members of our party were fighting for the working classes when Members or the ancestors of Members opposite were shackled with laissez faire. View quote
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True to our traditions, we have avoided all extremes. View quote
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It proved the stability of the whole fabric of our own country, and to the amazement of the world not a shot was fired. We were saved by common sense and the good temper of our own people. View quote
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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. View quote
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The stock is the same as it ever was, and it is as fine as it ever was. View quote
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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. View quote
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Now we have been called all kinds of names because we have not brought the country to war, and those who have principally criticised us have been those who hitherto have been noted for their pacifist views and not for their support of the strengthening of the arms of this country. View quote
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The only argument which appealed to the dictators was that of force. View quote
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I want a truce of God in this country. View quote
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I have tried so far as I can to lead this country into the way of evolutionary progress, but I have tried to warn it against revolutionary progress, and I have tried to bring about a unity of spirit in the nation. (Stanley Baldwin)
If there be one thing certain, to my mind it is this. That if the people of this country in great numbers were to become adherents of either Communism or Fascism there could only be one end to it. And that one end would be civil war. View quote
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Democracy can rise to great heights; it can also sink to great depths. It is for us so to conduct ourselves, and so to educate our own people, that we may achieve the heights and avoid the depths. View quote
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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. View quote
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Freedom, ordered freedom, within the law, with force in the background and not in the foreground. View quote
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I did tell His Majesty once that I might be a remnant of the old Victorians, but that my worst enemy would not say of me that I did not know what the reaction of the English people would be to any particular course of action. View quote
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That is to me a far more significant portent than the aggregation of the population in cities, the immense luxury, and the exhaustion of the permanent sources of wealth, all of which combined to sap that very character whose continued existence was necessary for the life of the State. View quote
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We, at any rate, are not going to fire the first shot. We stand for peace. We stand for the removal of suspicion in the country. We want to create an atmosphere, a new atmosphere in a new Parliament for a new age, in which the people can come together. View quote
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Magna Carta is the Law: Let the King look out. View quote
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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. View quote
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Quality before quantity any day. Build up with the best. What does it matter if it is a hundred years, or two hundred years, or more, before your country is full? Keep the stock you have, and the men and women you have, and see that the coming generations are in no way inferior to them. (Stanley Baldwin)
I think that our experience in business had taught us that, as a matter of fact, there are no such things as supermen, and that we should have to rely on the innate common-sense, integrity, courage and faith of the common men and women of this country if we were to make good. View quote
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I give you my word that there will be no great armaments. View quote
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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. View quote
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A free trade unionism is a bulwark of popular liberty. View quote
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