Stanley Baldwin quotes - page 8

To-day when we think of Empire we think of it primarily as an instrument of world peace. (Stanley Baldwin)
The brotherhood of man to-day is often denied and derided and called foolishness, but it is, in fact, one of the foolish things of the world which God has chosen to confound the wise, and the world is confounded by it daily. We may evade it, we may deny it; but we shall find no rest for our souls, or will the world until we acknowledge it as the ultimate wisdom. That is the message I have tried to deliver as Prime Minister in a hundred speeches. View quote
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Supposing I had gone to the country and said that Germany was rearming and that we must rearm, does anybody think that this pacific democracy would have rallied to that cry at that moment? I cannot think of anything that would have made the loss of the election from my point of view more certain. View quote
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A dynamic force is a very terrible thing; it may crush you, but it is not necessarily right. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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No Government in this country to-day, which has not faith in the people, hope in the future, love for his fellow-men, and which will not work and work and work, will ever bring this country through into better days and better times, or will ever bring Europe through or the world through. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The best way in which you can develop a true national feeling and put your own country in the pride of place which belongs to her is to do it in communion with other nations and with the sole object of improving the world at large. View quote
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I am just one of yourselves, who has been called to special work for the country at this time. (Stanley Baldwin)
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. View quote
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It is to moralise the world that we all desire. View quote
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Socialism would bring him back from contract to status. View quote
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All service ranks the same, according to the spirit in which it is performed. View quote
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The fruits of the free spirit of man do not grow in the garden of tyranny. View quote
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The real enemies are overwork, under-payment, insecurity and bad conditions. View quote
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There is a saying as old as the Greeks that it is more important to form good habits than to frame good laws. View quote
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We remember what modern warfare is, with no glory in it but the heroism of man. View quote
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There is only one thing which I feel is worth giving one's whole strength to, and that is the binding together of all classes of our people in an effort to make life in this country better in every sense of the word. That is the main end and object of my life in politics. View quote
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When you think of 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. (Stanley Baldwin)
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." View quote
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Now, whatever those ideas may produce for those countries, what I want to warn you about is that neither of those ideas can ever do anything to help our country in solving her own constitutional problems. They are exotic to this country. They are alien. You could not graft them on to our system any more than you could graft a Siberian crab on an oak. View quote
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We have demonstrated to the world in actual practice that difficulties can be resolved by discussion as they cannot be resolved by force. View quote
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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. View quote
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