A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.

There is no country... where there are not somewhere lovers of freedom who look to this country to carry the torch and keep it burning bright until such time as they may again be able to light their extinguished torches at our flame. We owe it not only to our own people but to the world to preserve our soul for that.

You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.

I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived.

The world was never more unsafe for democracy then it is today.

I wish for many reasons flying had never been invented.

I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Magna Carta is the Law: Let the King look out. So it has always been with tyrants among our own people: when the King was tyrant, let him look out. And it has always been the same, and will be the same, whether the tyrant be the Barons, whether the tyrant be the Church, whether he be demagogue or dictator - let them look out.

Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

Whether we like it or not we are consideably bound to Europe.

If I did not believe that our work was done in the faith and hope that at some day, it may be a million years hence, the Kingdom of God will spread over the whole world, I would have no hope, I could do no work, and I would give my office over this morning to anyone who would take it.

The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.

No British Prime Minister of the last seventy years has been more harshly stereotyped than Stanley Baldwin. No one has been so much ignored, after the initial judgements of contemporaries had been made.