Quote#Self
That is to me a far more significant portent than the aggregation of…
Quote byStanley Baldwin · 1867–1947
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Speech to the Classical Association (8 January 1926), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), p. 105.
English (original)
That is to me a far more significant portent than the aggregation of the population in cities, the immense luxury, and the exhaustion of the permanent sources of wealth, all of which combined to sap that very character whose continued existence was necessary for the life of the State.
— Stanley Baldwin
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