Stanley Baldwin Quotes

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

When the call came for me to form a Government, one of my first thoughts was that it should be a Government of which Harrow would not be ashamed.

I shall be but a short time tonight. I have seldom spoken with greater regret, for my lips are not yet unsealed.Were these troubles over I would make a case, and I guarantee that not a man would go into the lobby against us.

There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world, and blowing as strongly in Asia as elsewhere.

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.

I think it is well also for the man in the street to realize that there is no power on earth that can protect him from being bombed.Whatever people will tell him, the bomber will always get through. The only defence is in offence, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you want to save yourselves.