Stanley Baldwin/prime Minister 1935-1937

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    Learn by our friendship to create
    An immaterial fire,
    —Thomas Stanley (1625–1678)

    But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
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    My prime of youth is but a frost of cares,
    My feast of joy is but a dish of pain,
    My crop of corn is but a field of tares,
    And all my good is but vain hope of gain:
    The day is past, and yet I saw no sun,
    And now I live, and now my life is done.
    Chidiock Tichborne (1558–1586)

    [T]he minister preached a sermon on Jonah and the whale, at the end of which an old chief arose and declared, “We have heard several of the white people talk and lie; we know they will lie, but this is the biggest lie we ever heard.”
    —Administration in the State of Miss, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)