Stanley Baldwin Quotes

You may rely upon one thing — I'll never engage in creating kings again; it's too great a strain.

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom

When a natural king becomes a titular king, every body is pleased and satisfied.

MONARCHICAL GOVERNMENT, n. Government.

History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to be pitied, for they know not what they should do.

A people may let a king fall and still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.

The World is governed too much.

But the king should not be under any man, only under God and the law, for the law makes the king. Let the king therefore attribute to the law what the law attributes to him, namely lordship and power, for there is no king where will rules and not the law.

Peru needs an emperor.

Kings are for nations in swaddling clothes.

Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.

What is called a constitution today is nothing but "get out so I can get in.

Absolutism tempered by assassination.

The general laws of the kingdom may be enacted only with the consent of the king and the nation. If the king proposes a law, the nation accepts or rejects it; if the nation demands a law, it is for the king to consent or to reject it

It is certain that, so soon as the people submit to a king, really such, they have no longer the supreme power.

The silence of peoples is something kings should study.

To rule means to exercise power, and only he who possesses power can exercise it. This direct connection of power and rule forms the fundamental truth of all politics and the key to all history.

Whoso desireth to govern well and securely, it behoveth him to have a vigilant eye to the proceedings of great princes, and to consider seriously of their designs.

In no form of government is there an absolute identity of interest between the people and their rulers

Kings and rulers stand in the place of God on earth, and it is through them, as secondary causes, that God exercises governance over the world.

It conducts human societies to the true republic, that dream of all generous souls, which in our time can be realized in Europe only by constitutional monarchy.

One of the things that is so important, critical I think, in reading not just the founders but thousands of years as you put it, that discussion about corruption, is that you can't talk about the problem of corruption without talking about human nature.

Commerce and politics do not go with royalty, full stop.

In every sort of politics, in history, it has its own problems, its leaders, its own opposition.