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

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

“War would end if the dead could return.”

“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 love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”

“A person does not lightly elect to oppose his society. One would much rather be at home among one's compatriots than be mocked and detested by them. And there is a level on which the mockery of people, even their hatred, is moving, because it is so blind: It is terrible to watch people cling to their captivity and insist on their own destruction.”