“I hear sometimes of the necessity for creating an "international mind." I am afraid that my heart is too stubbornly local for me to follow that high thought… I am an impenitent patriot; like Gilbert's heroic figure, "I remain an Englishman." I do not want daily to become more and more like my neighbour, nor would it gratify my self-esteem if he became daily more like me.”

— Stanley Baldwin

Speech to the Peace Society (31 October 1935), quoted in This Torch of Freedom (1935), p. 332.
1935

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