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Stanley Baldwin
English
Statesman
About the author
The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.
Stanley Baldwin,
English
Statesman
#Gentleman
You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.
Stanley Baldwin,
English
Statesman
#Will
#Motive
#Politics
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.
Stanley Baldwin,
English
Statesman
#Enemy
#Children
#Defense
#Women
War would end if the dead could return.
Stanley Baldwin,
English
Statesman
#End
#War
I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
Stanley Baldwin,
English
Statesman
#Reason
#Man
#Woman
#Instinct
#Trust
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.
Stanley Baldwin,
English
Statesman
#Day
#Old
#Defense
#Lies
#EnglForget
I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.
Stanley Baldwin,
English
Statesman
#Truth
#Diversity
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.
Stanley Baldwin,
English
Statesman
#Time
#Patience
#Vision
#First
#Experience
#Months
#Courage
A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
Stanley Baldwin,
English
Statesman
#People
#Truth
#Hearing
The bomber will always get through. The only defense is in offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly that the enemy if you want to save yourselves.
Stanley Baldwin,
English
Statesman
#Want
#Will
#Enemy
#Children
#Defense
#Women
I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.
Stanley Baldwin,
English
Statesman
#Faith
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.
Stanley Baldwin,
English
Statesman
#Day
#Old
#Defense
#England