Quotes by Stanley Baldwin

• The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.
• You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.
• War would end if the dead could return.
• I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
• 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.
• I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.