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Whether we like it or not we are consideably bound to Europe.
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.
I wish for many reasons flying had never been invented.
England totally disarmed and an easy prey to hostile forces! Can you think of anything more likely to excite cupidity and hostile intention? We should sink to the level of a fifth rate Power, our Colonies would be stripped from us, our commerce would decline, famine and unemployment would stalk the land ... I have yet to learn that the cause of peace can be served by rendering our country impotent.
I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.
Whatever failures may have come to parliamentary government in countries which have not those traditions, and where it is not a natural growth, that is no proof that parliamentary government has failed.
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.
I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
Magna Carta is the Law: Let the King look out.So it has always been with tyrants among our own people: when the King was tyrant, let him look out. And it has always been the same, and will be the same, whether the tyrant be the Barons, whether the tyrant be the Church, whether he be demagogue or dictator - let them look out.
I am a man of peace. I am longing and working and praying for peace, but I will not surrender the safety and security of the British constitution. You placed me in power eighteen months ago by the largest majority accorded to any party for many, many years. Have I done anything to forfeit that confidence? Cannot you trust me to ensure a square deal to secure even justice between man and man?
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.
The die-hard opinions of George III couched in the language of Edmund Burke.
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.
War would end if the dead could return.
I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived.
You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.
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.
A lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.
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.
Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.
