43 Quotes by Stanley Baldwin

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

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

The papers conducted by Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook are not newspapers in the ordinary acceptance of the term. They are engines of propaganda for the constantly-changing policies, desires, personal wishes, and personal likes and dislikes of two men? What the proprietorship of those papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

Do not fear or misunderstand when the Government say they are looking to our defences. I give you my word that there will be no great armaments.

The real need of the day is ... moral and spiritual rearmament ... God's Living Spirit can transcend conflicting political systems, can reconcile order and freedom, can rekindle true patriotism, can unite all citizens in the service of the nation, and all nations in the service of mankind.

No British Prime Minister of the last seventy years has been more harshly stereotyped than Stanley Baldwin. No one has been so much ignored, after the initial judgements of contemporaries had been made.

I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived.

A lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.

Once I leave I leave. I am not going to speak to the man on the bridge and I am not going to spit on the deck.