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Stanley Baldwin

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“I get an obsession that everybody is out for what they can get during the war and it makes me sick.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1910 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Lady Dickinson (28 November 1917), quoted in Robert Rhodes James (ed.), Memoirs of a Conservative: J. C. C. Davidson's Memoirs and Papers, 1910-1937 (1969), p. 79
“A lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1918 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the new MPs elected in 1918; quoted by John Maynard Keynes in Economic Consequences of the Peace, Ch. 5
“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.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1910 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to J. C. C. Davidson (28 January 1919) on contemplating acceptance of government office, quoted in Robert Rhodes James (ed.), Memoirs of a Conservative: J. C. C. Davidson's Memoirs and Papers, 1910-1937 (1969), p…
“It is an easy thing to say, as many men say to-day, that this country should cut herself adrift from Europe, but we must remember that our island story is told, and that with the advent of the aeroplane we ceased to be an island. Whether we like it or not, we are indissolubly bound to Europe, and we shall have to use, and continue to use, our best endeavours to bring to that Continent that peace in which we and millions of men up and down Europe have an equal belief and an equal faith.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1923 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in the House of Commons (23 July 1923).
“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 short, and it is with that object—the object of peace above and before all things.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1923 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at the Philip Scott College (27 September 1923), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), p. 157
“To many the last five years have been a disenchantment. Every cloud has a silver lining, and we take strength from the fact that, through all the difficulties of the time, the strength and moderation of the character of our people has once again shown itself, and in our country, almost alone in Europe, have we had freedom from unconstitutional rebellion. And more than that, I think we may say of our own people that feelings of hatred and vengeance have no permanent root in their hearts.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1923 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at the unveiling of the Board of Trade war memorial (19 December 1923), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), pp. 273-274
“Rhetoric, which I regard as one of the greatest dangers of modern civilization..."Self-determination" is another rhetorical term that may some day lead the nations into a bloody war. That is what rhetoric does. "Homes fit for heroes to live in," and "A world safe for democracy!" These, to my mind, are the quintessence of rhetoric, and it is against rhetoric in this sense that I am going to vote to-night.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at the Cambridge Union (March 1924), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), pp. 94-95
“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 glorious literature of the first country in the world—your own.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at Birkbeck College (20 March 1924), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), p. 146
“I owe a great deal of my public and private life to my Nonconformist ancestry.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the Nonconformist Unionist League (8 April 1924), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), p. 269
“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 eyes of the people sealed, and opened them, and for that reason the gratitude of the nation should be given to him.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the Byron centenary luncheon (29 April 1924), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), pp. 123-124
“We want to help to better the conditions for our own people. We want to see our people raised, not into a society of State ownership, but into a society in which, increasingly, the individual may become an owner. There is a very famous sentence of Sir Henry Maine's, in which he said that the progress of our civilisation had been of recent centuries a progress on the part of mankind from status to contract. Socialism would bring him back from contract to status.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the Junior Imperial League (3 May 1924), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), p. 225
“The Englishman is all right as long as he is content to be what God made him, an Englishman, but gets into trouble when he tries to be something else. There are chroniclers, or were chroniclers, who said it was the apeing of the French manners by our English ancestors that made us the prey of William the Norman, and led to our defeat at Hastings. Let that be a warning to us not to ape any foreign country. Let us be content to trust ourselves and to be ourselves.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at the annual dinner of The Royal Society of St. George (6 May 1924), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), p. 2
“The Englishman is made for a time of crisis, and for a time of emergency. He is serene in difficulties, but may seem to be indifferent when times are easy. He may not look ahead, he may not heed warnings, he may not prepare, but when he once starts he is persistent to the death, and he is ruthless in action. It is these gifts that have made the Englishman what he is, and that have enabled the Englishman to make England and the Empire what it is.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at the annual dinner of The Royal Society of St. George (6 May 1924), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), pp. 3-4
“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 all classes. There is a way of facing misfortunes with a cheerful face. It was shown to a marvellous degree in the war.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at the annual dinner of The Royal Society of St. George (6 May 1924), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), pp. 4-5
“To me, England is the country, and the country is England. And when I ask myself what I mean by England when I am abroad, England comes to me through my various senses — through the ear, through the eye and through certain imperishable scents … The sounds of England, the tinkle of the hammer on the anvil in the country smithy, the corncrake on a dewy morning, the sound of the scythe against the whetstone, and the sight of a plough team coming over the brow of a hill, the sight that has been seen in England since England was a land … the one eternal sight of England.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at the annual dinner of The Royal Society of St. George (6 May 1924), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), pp. 6-7
“To me the greatest value of the Commonwealth of Nations to which we belong is not necessarily an area in which to make money, but it is space in the world for the spreading and the increase of our own race, because I believe our own race to be the best in the world, and I believe that the progress of the world, morally and spiritually as well as economically, is bound up in the spread of our people with their ideas and with their ideals.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in the House of Commons (18 June 1924)
“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 England.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Southend during the general election campaign on the Zinoviev letter (20 October 1924), quoted in The Times (21 October 1924), p. 10
“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 essential, and without the will to work progress is not possible, and with constant stoppages of industry progress is not possible.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at the Albert Hall (4 December 1924), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), p. 70
“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 our own people to make one nation of our people at home which, if secured, nothing else matters in the world.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at the Albert Hall (4 December 1924), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), p. 73
“I think some of us found that we were getting to cling much more loosely to material wealth, and to realise that wealth was made to be a servant and not a master—that as a servant it had a most useful function to perform, that as a master it meant damnation.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1925 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Leeds (13 March 1925), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), pp. 61-62
“What we have to do...is to humanise the system of limited liability.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1925 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Leeds (13 March 1925), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), p. 67
“Those of us who love the country and country things feel in our bones the urbanisation of our land and the need that something should be done to preserve our birds and our flowers.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1925 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at the unveiling of the Hudson Memorial in Hyde Park (19 May 1925), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), p. 129
“Words are the currency of love and friendship, of making and marketing, of peace and war. Nations are bound and loosed by them. Three or four simple words can move waves of emotion through the hearts of multitudes like great tides of the sea: "Lest we forget." "Patriotism is not enough.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1925 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at his inauguration as Lord Rector of The University of Edinburgh (6 November 1925), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), p. 78
“Better to doubt methodically than to think capriciously.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1925 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at his inauguration as Lord Rector of The University of Edinburgh (6 November 1925), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), p. 83
“There is nowhere in the world, I believe, a higher standard of commercial honour than that which prevails in this country. And the same is true of our Courts of Law, which enjoy a world-wide prestige.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1925 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at his inauguration as Lord Rector of The University of Edinburgh (6 November 1925), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), p. 84
“A character founded on pietas and gravitas had its roots in truth, and I am proud to think that the English word has been held in no less honour than the Roman...It is from Ammian, who wrote while the legions were leaving Britain, that we learn that the Roman word could no longer be trusted. 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 (1867–1947) first seen 1926 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the Classical Association (8 January 1926), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), p. 105
“There are fears amongst those who are responsible for government to-day, fears not yet gripping us by the throat but taking grisly shape in the twilight, that the Great War, by the destruction of our best lives in such numbers, has not left enough of the breed to carry on the work of Empire. Our task is hard enough, but it will be accomplished; yet who in Europe does not know that one more war in the West, and the civilization of the ages will fall with as great a shock as that of Rome? She has left danger-signals along the road; it is for us to read them.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1926 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the Classical Association (8 January 1926), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), p. 106
“Believing as I do that much of the civilisation and culture of the world is bound up with the life of Western Europe, it is good for us to remember that we Western Europeans have been in historical times members together of a great Empire, and that we share in common, though in differing degrees, language, law, and tradition. That there should be wars between nations who learned their first lessons in citizenship from the same mother seems to me fratricidal insanity.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1926 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the Classical Association (8 January 1926), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), p. 107
“In Athens and Rome...every ultimate problem was theirs, as it is ours, and the more you open your soul to their appeal the more profound your pity for stumbling humanity, the more eager your effort to bind together the family of man rather than to loosen it. It is no blind chance that has led one of our greatest scholars to devote his life to the ideal of the League of Nations. Rather it is his desire to make his contribution to redeeming the failure of those very Greeks whom he, more perhaps than any living man, has helped this modern world to understand.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1926 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the Classical Association (8 January 1926) on Gilbert Murray, quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), pp. 115-116
“There is nothing the country needs so much as another Wesley or Whitefield...To-day the world seems more irreligious than it has ever been in the Christian era. Irresponsible pleasure-seeking and prodigal luxury abound; church-going has lost the hold it had in our childhood; and candidates for the Ministry are less in number than years past. But I believe this condition of affairs will pass.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1926 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at the Langham Hotel (11 February 1926), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), pp. 195-196
“I find there, especially among the Labour Party, many men who fifty years ago would inevitably have gone into the Christian Ministry. They have been drawn into political life from a deep desire to help the people. Such men are common in all parties to-day...I certainly agree with many observers that since the war the manifest forces of Satan have been more conspicuously at large. But the very manifestation of these forces is calling other forces into the field.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1926 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at the Langham Hotel (11 February 1926), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), p. 196
“The political career properly viewed is really a kind of Ministry.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1926 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at the Langham Hotel (11 February 1926), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), p. 197
“I am a man of peace. I am longing and working and praying for peace, but I will not surrender the safety and security of the British constitution. You placed me in power eighteen months ago by the largest majority accorded to any party for many, many years. Have I done anything to forfeit that confidence? Cannot you trust me to ensure a square deal to secure even justice between man and man?”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1926 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech on BBC radio on the General Strike (8 May 1926), as quoted in Baldwin : A Biography by Keith Middlemas and John Barnes (1969), p. 415
“The Government took emergency measures to control food supplies, to commandeer all forms of transport, to preserve order, and to stop the export of such coal as might be in the ports. Now into those few hours there were thus crowded events of a staggering character, and, had they taken place among a less disciplined people than our own people, riot and revolution would have quickly followed. But our race is not a raw and untried race. The country, true to its finest traditions, kept its head, and by keeping its head won the admiration, the reluctant admiration, of the world.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1926 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Chippenham (12 June 1926) on the General Strike, quoted in Our Inheritance (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938), p. 159
“It is a great tribute to the good qualities of the strikers, who are our own people, that they showed that sense of discipline and restraint in obedience to their instructions. Many of them obeyed their orders from their sense of loyalty, orders of which they disapproved themselves, but if that strike had been successful it would have meant industrial ruin, not only to the miners, but to the whole country.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1926 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Chippenham (12 June 1926) on the General Strike, quoted in Our Inheritance (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938), p. 167.
“Our people are not going to throw over Parliament to set up divine right either of the capitalist or of the trade unionist, and we are not going to bow down to a dictatorship of either...I want to see our British Labour movement free from alien and foreign heresy. I want to see it pursued and developed on English lines, led by English men.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1926 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Chippenham (12 June 1926), quoted in Our Inheritance (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938), pp. 169-170.
“Perpetual strife can only lead to poverty and oppression, and peace alone can remove these two spectres of poverty and oppression.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1926 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Chippenham (12 June 1926), quoted in Our Inheritance (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938), p. 171.
“You have to realize that these years in which we are living, the years into which we are entering, are going to be, as no years before have been, the real testing-time of democracy...We in this country may make a fearful mess of it; and if we make a mess of it, we shall get something much worse—we shall get a tyranny of some kind or other. I don't know what form of tyranny it may be. It may be the communist tyranny; it may be tyranny from the other end. But if you cannot evolve a sound and sane democracy, that will be the fate of the country.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1926 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the thirtieth anniversary of the Junior Imperial League in Kingsway Hall (19 June 1926), quoted in Our Inheritance (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938), pp. 17-18.
“The conception of freedom in our country was one so precious, so hallowed, it has been obtained as the result of such age-long struggles, that I felt convinced that in no other country, whatever advantages in other respects they may have over us—in no other country was freedom treasured and regarded as it was in this country, and in its attainment there was no country in the world that had anything which in all circumstances it could teach us.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1926 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the thirtieth anniversary of the Junior Imperial League in Kingsway Hall (19 June 1926), quoted in Our Inheritance (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938), p. 19.
“We cannot without damage to our soul's health destroy the roots which bind us to the land and language of our birth. The love of country is a deep and universal instinct, freighted with ancient memories and subtle associations. Men who deny their national spiritual heritage in exchange for a vague and watery cosmopolitanism become less than men; they starve and dwarf their personalities; they turn into a sort of political eunuch.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1927 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the St. David's Day Banquet in Cardiff (1 March 1927), quoted in Our Inheritance (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938), p. 50.
“In our thought of Empire to-day there is nothing in the nature of flag-wagging or boasting of painting the map red. No! Only a sense of pride in the race from which we spring—a pride which makes us humble in our own eyes, and resolute to make ourselves as worthy as we may of the heritage and responsibilities which are ours.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1927 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Broadcast from 10 Downing Street, London (24 May 1927), quoted in Our Inheritance (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938), p. 60.
“We who have inherited this Empire are proud of it, and it is right that we should be proud. With our pride there should mingle gratitude to those who have gone before us, by whose efforts this Empire has grown. In a world still suffering from the shock of war, the British Empire stands firm as a great force for good...It stands in the sweep of every wind, by the wash of every sea, a witness to that which the spirit of confidence and brotherhood can accomplish in the world.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1927 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Broadcast from 10 Downing Street, London (24 May 1927), quoted in Our Inheritance (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938), p. 63.
“The greatest hope I have for our country is in the widespread kindling of that real desire for education which I regard as almost the only fruit of the war on which I can look with satisfaction...we are apt to lose sight of the importance of education as an end in itself. If you regard education solely from the point of view of enabling you to earn a salary, useful as that may be, you miss one of the best things for which education stands.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1927 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the Canadian Club in Toronto (6 August 1927), quoted in Our Inheritance (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938), pp. 76-77.
“We in England also suffer very much...from very clever physicians who are always prepared to prescribe for the body politic with a great deal of intellectual agility, which is equalled only by their ignorance of human nature. These people in Europe are called the "intelligentsia"—a very ugly word for a very ugly thing.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1927 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the Canadian Club in Toronto (6 August 1927), quoted in Our Inheritance (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938), p. 78.
“I may confess to men here, of a stock so largely English, that our English intelligence is sometimes apt to be despised by nations that think they are quicker-witted than we are. Our most valuable real estate is our character—its steadiness, its reliability, its personal integrity, its capacity for toleration and for a quiet, humorous boredom with things. The general strike in England, which was not without its alarming aspects, illustrated all these qualities in our people.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1927 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the Canadian Club in Toronto (6 August 1927), quoted in Our Inheritance (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938), p. 79.
“There is no precedent for the British Commonwealth of Nations...we have wrought for ourselves a common tradition which transcends all local loyalties and binds us as one people. The Empire of our dreams, if not always of our deeds, is compacted of great spiritual elements—freedom and law, fellowship and loyalty, honour and toleration...To-day when we think of Empire we think of it primarily as an instrument of world peace.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1927 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to a dinner given by the Province of Ontario (6 August 1927), quoted in Our Inheritance (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938), pp. 91-92.
“I think that to those of us who have watched the development of the Middle West and the Far West nothing is more remarkable, nothing pays a higher tribute to the finest qualities of our race, than the way in which law and order are maintained from coast to coast.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1927 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Regina, Canada (13 August 1927), quoted in Our Inheritance (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938), p. 105.
“You very often hear and you sometimes read in newspapers not friendly to the British race that there signs of decadence in Great Britain. Don't you believe a word of it. The people at home are the same people who fought shoulder to shoulder with you for four years all over the world. They are the same stock which created the Maritime Provinces and Ontario. They are the same stock that built up this country. The stock is the same as it ever was, and it is as fine as it ever was.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1927 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Winnipeg, Canada (13 August 1927), quoted in Our Inheritance (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938), pp. 116-117.
“The fortunes of a nation are determined above everything by the quality of its people.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1927 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at Douglas Castle, Lanarkshire, Scotland (27 August 1927), quoted in Our Inheritance (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938), p. 129.
“Your work in social service, whatever form it may take, requires exactly those two things that my work requires...patience and faith in human worth. Those are the real foundations of democracy, not equality in the sense in which that word is so often used. We are not all equal, and never shall be; the true postulate of democracy is not equality but the faith that every man and woman is worth while.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1927 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the annual meeting of the Union of Girls' Schools (27 October 1927), quoted in Our Inheritance (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938), pp. 150-151.