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Top 20 Stanley Baldwin Quotes (2025 Update)

Stanley Baldwin Quote: “I would rather trust a woman’s instinct than a man’s reason.”

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

— Stanley Baldwin

Stanley Baldwin Quote: “A lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.”

2. “A lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.”

— Stanley Baldwin

Stanley Baldwin Quote: “I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.”

3. “I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.”

— Stanley Baldwin

Stanley Baldwin Quote: “War would end if the dead could return.”

4. “War would end if the dead could return.”

— Stanley Baldwin

Stanley Baldwin Quote: “The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.”

5. “The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.”

— Stanley Baldwin

Stanley Baldwin Quote: “The world was never more unsafe for democracy then it is today.”

6. “The world was never more unsafe for democracy then it is today.”

— Stanley Baldwin

Stanley Baldwin Quote: “If I did not believe that our work was done in the faith and hope that at some day, it may be a million years hence, the Kingdom of God will spread over the whole world, I would have no hope, I could do no work, and I would give my office over this morning to anyone who would take it.”

7. “If I did not believe that our work was done in the faith and hope that at some day, it may be a million years hence, the Kingdom of God will spread over the whole world, I would have no hope, I could do no work, and I would give my office over this morning to anyone who would take it.”

— Stanley Baldwin

Stanley Baldwin Quote: “Power without responsibility – the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.”

8. “Power without responsibility – the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.”

— Stanley Baldwin

Stanley Baldwin Quote: “Once I leave I leave. I am not going to speak to the man on the bridge and I am not going to spit on the deck.”

9. “Once I leave I leave. I am not going to speak to the man on the bridge and I am not going to spit on the deck.”

— Stanley Baldwin

Stanley Baldwin Quote: “Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree-very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.”

10. “Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree-very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.”

— Stanley Baldwin

Stanley Baldwin Quote: “I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived.”

11. “I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived.”

— Stanley Baldwin

Stanley Baldwin Quote: “The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.”

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

— Stanley Baldwin

Stanley Baldwin Quote: “The work of a Prime Minister is the loneliest job in the world.”

13. “The work of a Prime Minister is the loneliest job in the world.”

— Stanley Baldwin

Stanley Baldwin Quote: “There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world, and blowing as strongly in Asia as elsewhere.”

14. “There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world, and blowing as strongly in Asia as elsewhere.”

— Stanley Baldwin

Stanley Baldwin Quote: “When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress.”

15. “When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress.”

— Stanley Baldwin

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Stanley Baldwin Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

— Stanley Baldwin

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

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

— Stanley Baldwin

Stanley Baldwin Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

— Stanley Baldwin

Stanley Baldwin Quote: “Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.”

19. “Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.”

— Stanley Baldwin

Stanley Baldwin Quote: “I wish for many reasons flying had never been invented.”

20. “I wish for many reasons flying had never been invented.”

— Stanley Baldwin

Stanley Baldwin Quote: “The die-hard opinions of George III couched in the language of Edmund Burke.”

21. “The die-hard opinions of George III couched in the language of Edmund Burke.”

— Stanley Baldwin

Stanley Baldwin Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

— Stanley Baldwin

Stanley Baldwin Quote: “Just as the results of inebriety are most painful to the habitually sober, and just as the greatest saints have often been the greatest sinners, so, when the first class brain does something stupid, the stupidity of that occasion is colossal.”

23. “Just as the results of inebriety are most painful to the habitually sober, and just as the greatest saints have often been the greatest sinners, so, when the first class brain does something stupid, the stupidity of that occasion is colossal.”

— Stanley Baldwin

Stanley Baldwin Quote: “Whether we like it or not we are consideably bound to Europe.”

24. “Whether we like it or not we are consideably bound to Europe.”

— Stanley Baldwin

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