Love of Country Things

Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947), This Torch of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1935), p. 120: We have become largely an urban folk, but there lies, deep down in the hearts even of those who have toiled in our cities for two or three generations, an ineradicable love of country things and country beauty, as it may exist in them traditionally and subconsciously; and to them, as much as and even more than to ourselves, the country represents the eternal values and the eternal traditions from which we must never allow ourselves to be separated.

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