Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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England totally disarmed and an easy prey to hostile forces! Can you think of anything more likely to excite cupidity and hostile intention? We should sink to the level of a fifth rate Power, our Colonies would be stripped from us, our commerce would decline, famine and unemployment would stalk the land... I have yet to learn that the cause of peace can be served by rendering our country impotent.

Stanley Baldwin's Popular Quotes

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

- Stanley Baldwin

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

- Stanley Baldwin

I think it is well . . . for the man in the street to realise there is no power on earth that can protect him from bombing, whatever people may tell …

- Stanley Baldwin

Whether we like it or not we are consideably bound to Europe.

- Stanley Baldwin

The world was never more unsafe for democracy then it is today.

- Stanley Baldwin

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

- Stanley Baldwin

Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

- Stanley Baldwin

Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree - very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.

- Stanley Baldwin

Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.

- Stanley Baldwin