“Dogmatism is the prerogative of youth.”
Speech to the Empire Rally of Youth at the Royal Albert Hall (18 May 1937), quoted in Service of Our Lives (1937), p. 161.
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Stanley Baldwin225
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1867–1947Related quotes
John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834–1902) British politician and historian
Private notes, quoted in Herbert Butterfield, ‘Acton: His Training, Methods and Intellectual System’, in A. O. Sarkissian (ed.), Studies in Diplomatic History and Historiography in honour of G. P. Gooch, C.H. (1961), p. 195
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In his Nobel Prize Banquet Speech http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1952/bloch-speech.html, December 10, 1952.
“Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties,
And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.”
Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) writer
"Habitations"
Sonnets and Verse (1938)
“Youth is always right. Those who follow the counsels of youth are wise.”
Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) Austrian writer
Confusion of Feelings or Confusion: The Private Papers of Privy Councillor R. Von D (1927)
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
Source: As quoted in The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, William L. Shirer, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, New York, 1990, p. 249 (May 1, 1937)
“As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth, and our wealth attaining youth.”
Douglas Coupland book Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
Source: Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture