Home / Quotes / Quote by Stanley Baldwin

Quote by Stanley Baldwin

“"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.”

Quote by Stanley Baldwin

Author

Stanley Baldwin

Sir Stanley Baldwin was a prominent British politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer. He was a key figure in the Conservative Party in the early 20th century and served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1915 to 1923, known for his steady political style and foreign policy. more

You May Also Like

“Whatever failures may have come to parliamentary government in countries which have not those traditions, and where it is not a natural growth, that is no proof that parliamentary government has failed.”

May Country Government Growth Natural Tradition Proof Parliamentary Parliamentary Government

Author:Stanley Baldwin

“The die-hard opinions of George III couched in the language of Edmund Burke.”

Hard Dies Language Opinion

Author:Stanley Baldwin

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.”

“I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures; it is not inhibited by flourish; it is a rhetorical society; it is a society of physical performance; it is a society of style.”

Style Performances Likes Gestures Grandeur Rhetorical

Author:Derek Walcott

“Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe. I don't think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul.”

Thinking Humans Art Soul Conditions Poet Scientist Function Awe Tribes Good Art Astonishment Good Science

Author:Derek Walcott

“If I was an aspirant litterateur, I was also an aspirant anarchist. I have disliked Authority always, though sometimes seduced by its resplendence.”

Ifs Sometimes Authority Anarchist

Author:Jan Morris

“I haven't decided if he deserved to eat bread made out of sticks or live in a rancid puddle, probably because I haven't made up my mind whether anyone deserves such treatment, though I suspect that the day a person gives up on the Geneva Conventions is the day a person gives up on the human race.”

Ifs Giving Mind Humans Persons Made Race Havens Giving Up Deserve Decided Sticks Bread Human Race Treatment Suspects Conventions Puddles Geneva Geneva Convention

Book:Assassination Vacation

Source: Assassination Vacation

“The problem is that we live in an uptight country. Why don't we just laugh at ourselves? We are funny. Gays are funny. Straights are funny. Women are funny. Men are funny. We are all funny, and we all do funny things. Let's laugh about it.”

Men Country Problem Laughing Gay Laughter Funny Things Funny Women Uptight Funny Men

Author:Bob Newhart

“There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride; In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried.”

Facts Failing Failure Foe Disgrace Lad

Author:Ken Kesey

“The reverberation often exceeds through silence the sound that sets it off; the reaction occasionally outdoes by way of repose the event that stimulated it; and the past not uncommonly takes a while to happen, and some long time to figure out.”

Way Long Happens Past Sound Silence Events Figures Long Time Reactions Exceed Repose Reverberation

Book:Sometimes a Great Notion

Source: Sometimes a Great Notion