Stanley Baldwin/prime Minister 1935%e2%80%931937

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    “Rain falls into the open eyes of the dead
    Again again with its pointless sound
    When the moon finds them they are the color of everything”
    —William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)

    “Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life’s possibilities.”
    —James Baldwin (1924–1987)

    “The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.”
    —Aneurin Bevan (1897–1960)

    “[T]he dignity of parliament it seems can brook no opposition to it’s power. Strange that a set of men who have made sale of their virtue to the minister should yet talk of retaining dignity!”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)