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Stanley Baldwin

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


— Stanley Baldwin


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War would end if the dead could return.


— Stanley Baldwin


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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


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


— Stanley Baldwin


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


— Stanley Baldwin


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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


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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


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


— Stanley Baldwin


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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


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


— Stanley Baldwin


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Baldwin responded by denying that the Luftwaffe was approaching equality and that it was "not 50 per cent" of the RAF. In September 1941 Baldwin's old enemy Lord Beaverbrook asked all local authorities to survey their area's iron and steel railings and gates that could be used for the war effort. He wants a scapegoat and the men provided him with one".

Baldwin lost the 1929 General Election and his continued leadership was subject to criticism by the press barons Rothermere and Beaverbrook. By 2004 however historians generally painted a positive portrait of his governments. Baldwin's third government saw a number of crises in foreign affairs including the public uproar over the Hoare-Laval Pact Hitler's reoccupation of the Rhineland and the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.

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