You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain. – Stanley Baldwin
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. – Stanley Baldwin
I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it. – Stanley Baldwin
Power without responsibility — the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages. – Stanley Baldwin
As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me; but I meane not they should cover or hide me… – Michel de Montaigne, “Of Phisiognomy,” translated by John Florio; commonly moder