Famous quotes containing the words stanley, baldwin, prime and/or minister:
“Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.”
—William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)
“If they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)
“The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on to find the positive conditions under which desired events take place, and that these can be just as scientifically investigated as can instances of negative correlation. This problem is beyond relativity.”
—Ruth Benedict (1887–1948)
“[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)