Quote#Nature
Dictatorship is like a giant beech tree—very magnificent to look at…
Quote byStanley Baldwin · 1867–1947
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Broadcast from London (6 March 1934), quoted in This Torch of Freedom (1935), p. 21.
English (original)
Dictatorship is like a giant beech tree—very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.
— Stanley Baldwin
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