Quote#Courage
I think that our experience in business had taught us that, as a…
Quote byStanley Baldwin · 1867–1947
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Speech in Leeds (13 March 1925), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), p. 62.
English (original)
I think that our experience in business had taught us that, as a matter of fact, there are no such things as supermen, and that we should have to rely on the innate common-sense, integrity, courage and faith of the common men and women of this country if we were to make good.
— Stanley Baldwin
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