Stanley Baldwin - Today Quotes

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It is not the case that Germany is rapidly approaching equality with us. Her real strength is not fifty per cent. of our strength in Europe today.

Stanley Baldwin
This country today [is] the last stronghold of freedom, standing like a rock in a tide that is threatened to submerge the world.

Stanley Baldwin
It is no ready made article; it has grown through the centuries as native to our country and people as the oak, ash, or thorn. It has given her people freedom and taught them the difference between freedom and licence. That is the Constitution that is threatened today, not quite openly yet, by the Socialist Party in their conference, tendenciously by sketching a course of action which if it takes place means the destruction of the Constitution. You may dispute that as much as you like, but in effect taking away the executive power of the House of Commons is the way every tyranny starts. It is proletarian Hitlerism and nothing else, and it can be nothing else. I want you to realize it in time.

Stanley Baldwin
This House today is a theatre which is being watched by the whole world. Let us conduct ourselves with that dignity which His Majesty is showing in this hour of his trial.

Stanley Baldwin
When you think about the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover. You think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies today.

Stanley Baldwin