STANLEY BALDWIN

War would end if the dead could return.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

A government is not in power. It is in office, put there by the will of the people.

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

Administration is the essence of government, and its quality is a prime condition of civic comfort.

He spent his whole life in plastering together the true and the false and therefrom extracting the plausible.

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

We have loosened the formal bonds of unity with the great dominions. The destinies of their peoples are guided by their own governments. No rigid framework cramps our conversations with one another or with the world outside the family circle. When we meet together in equal freedom we are united by common allegiance to the Crown. In that model unity lies our strength.

No party is, on the whole, better than another.

There are three groups that no British Prime Minister should provoke: The Vatican, the Treasury and the miners.

There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world.

What the proprietorship of these papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility—the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

It is well for the man in the street to realize that there is no power on earth that can protect him from being bombed. Whatever people tell him, the bomber will always get through.

Since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the chalk cliffs of Dover, you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies.

The German is naturally a law-abiding man, and he had a glimpse into the abyss when Communism in Germany raised its head—and Communism was a creed of violence. It was beaten ultimately by another creed of violence and force [Nazism].

I knew that I had been chosen as God's instrument for the work of the healing of the nation.