Stanley Baldwin

“The bomber will always get through.”

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

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

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

“You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive.”

“The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not to dominate the world.”

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

“I have always been more of a pacifist than a politician.”

“It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but to adapt men to Christ.”

“Our people are a peaceful people, but they are a people of strenuous character.”

“I am a man of peace. I am longing and looking and praying for peace, but I will not surrender the safety and security of the British constitution.”

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

“The Englishman is a cynic. He is benevolent, but conceited.”

“There can be no happiness for a people unless they are spiritually free.”

“The engines of the nation are not working at full power.”