Quotes by Stanley Baldwin

“Men make the mistake of thinking that because women cant see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. Its just not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. Given a choice, they will always opt for the status q”

“An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.”

“War would end if the dead could return.”

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

“You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.”

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

“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.”

“The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion”

“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.”

“Then comes Winston with his hundred-horse-power mind and what can I do?”

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

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

War would end if the dead could return.

I would rather trust a womans instinct than a mans reason.

Then comes Winston with his hundred horsepower mind and what can I do?