“A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.”

“What the proprietorship of these papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility — the prerogative of the harlot through the ages.[Baldwin was attacking the leading press barons of his day (Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Rothermere); the phrase was suggested by Baldwin's cousin Rudyard Kipling (17 March 1931)]”

“I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.”

“War would end if the dead could return.”

“I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.”

“Sometimes you hear a person speak the truth and you know that they are speaking the truth. But you also know that they have not heard themselves, do not know what they have said: do not know that they have revealed much more than they have said. This may be why the truth remains, on the whole, so rare.”

“It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.”