43 Quotes by Stanley Baldwin

Whatever failures may have come to parliamentary government in countries which have not those traditions, and where it is not a natural growth, that is no proof that parliamentary government has failed.

The die-hard opinions of George III couched in the language of Edmund Burke.

The work of a Prime Minister is the loneliest job in the world.

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

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. You placed me in power eighteen months ago by the largest majority accorded to any party for many, many years. Have I done anything to forfeit that confidence? Cannot you trust me to ensure a square deal to secure even justice between man and man?

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

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

Just as the results of inebriety are most painful to the habitually sober, and just as the greatest saints have often been the greatest sinners, so, when the first class brain does something stupid, the stupidity of that occasion is colossal.

I wish for many reasons flying had never been invented.