Stanley Baldwin

The children of such a philosophy can only bring damnation to this country.

There is only one thing which I feel is worth giving one's whole strength to, and that is the binding together of all classes of our people in an effort to make life in this country better in every sense of the word. That is the main end …

I want to see the spirit of service to the whole nation the birthright of every member of the Unionist Party—Unionist in the sense that we stand for the union of those two nations of which Disraeli spoke two generations ago; union among …

Democracy can rise to great heights; it can also sink to great depths. It is for us so to conduct ourselves, and so to educate our own people, that we may achieve the heights and avoid the depths.

The responsibility for progress rests not only on the Government, but on every man and woman in the country. The Government can go no faster in progress than the people will allow them to do. Willing co-operation in new methods is …

It makes my blood boil to read of the way in which M. Zinovieff is speaking of the Prime Minister of Great Britain today. At one time there went up a cry, "Hands off Russia." My word I think it is time someone said to Russia, "Hands off …

To me, England is the country, and the country is England.

I think the English people are at heart and in practice the kindest people in the world...there is in England a profound sympathy for the under-dog. There is a brotherly and a neighbourly feeling which we see to a remarkable extent through …

Socialism would bring him back from contract to status.

Byron, a man who gave the world a better heart and a new pulse...The man who finds new pulses in the world is the man who will enjoy immortality. Byron was, if anything, a sower of new seed that had a great germinal force...Byron found the …

I owe a great deal of my public and private life to my Nonconformist ancestry.

There is no real republicanism except that of literature. If I find a human face light up at some quotation which everyone ought to know, that man, be he duke or dustman, is my brother. That is the bond of literature. Study it, the …

the maintenance of the institutions of our country, the preservation and the development of our Empire, and the improvement of the conditions of our own people

Members of our party were fighting for the working classes when Members or the ancestors of Members opposite were shackled with laissez faire.

I am just one of yourselves, who has been called to special work for the country at this time.

There is no greater need in the world, abroad and at home, than peace, peace from the warfare of arms and peace of spirit. Those are the things I intended to fight for during the time that I am Prime Minister, whether that time be long or …

Rather should they have looked deep into the hearts of their own people, relying on that common sense and political sense that has never failed our race.

The great task of this generation, in my view, is to save democracy, to preserve it and to inspire it.

It is to moralise the world that we all desire.

No Government in this country to-day, which has not faith in the people, hope in the future, love for his fellow-men, and which will not work and work and work, will ever bring this country through into better days and better times, or …

no gospel founded on hate will ever seize the hearts of our people

A dynamic force is a very terrible thing; it may crush you, but it is not necessarily right.

What about my Soul? That's all right. The essence of such service is unselfishness. My first thought has to be of others, of the relationship of Crown and people: there will be no room to think of money or of my own career.

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