“The fortunes of a nation are determined above everything by the quality of its people.”

— Stanley Baldwin

Speech at Douglas Castle, Lanarkshire, Scotland (27 August 1927), quoted in Our Inheritance (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938), p. 129.
1927

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Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1867–1947

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