Stanley Baldwin Quotes

English - Statesman | August 3, 1867 - December 14, 1947

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

Stanley Baldwin

GentlemanIntelligentIntelligentsia

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

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PoliticsYouFindWillNeverFalse

War would end if the dead could return.

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

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TrustWomanManReasonWouldRather

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.

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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.

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

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TruthTiredPeopleHearingGetTill

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.

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DayThinkNever ForgetYouForget

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.

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DayThinkYouOldAirGone

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

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

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