"I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it."
"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."
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Source: Stanley Baldwin's speech at University of Durham to the Ashridge Fellowship, as quoted in The Times (December 3, 1934) and in Christian Conservatives and the Totalitarian Challenge, 1933-40 by Philip Williamson in The English Historical Review, Volume 115, No. 462 (pp. 607-642), June 2000.
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