David Lloyd George Quotes
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If you listen to the neverdo's, it's never done.
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Golf is the only game where the worst player gets the best of it. He obtains more out of it as regards both exercise and enjoyment, for the good player gets worried over the slightest mistake, whereas the poor player makes too many mistakes to worry about them.
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He [Hitler] is a very great man. "Fuhrer" is the proper name for him, for he is a born leader, yes, and statesman.
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When they circumcised Herbert Samuel they threw away the wrong bit
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Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.
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Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite, who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?
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He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.
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Believe me, Germany is unable to wage war.
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The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man who fires at it.
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The Bolshevists would blow up the fabric with high explosive, with horror. Others would pull down with the crowbars and with cranks--especially with cranks. . . . Sweating, slums, the sense of semi-slavery in labour, must go. We must cultivate a sense of manhood by treating men as men.
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Great Britain would spend her last guinea to keep a navy superior to that of the United States or any other power.
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Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment
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Hitler is a prodigious genius.
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.
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There is nothing more dangerous than to leap a chasm in two jumps.
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If you want to understand a subject promise to speak on it.
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A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror - and they last longer.
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Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.
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[Proportional representation is a] device for defeating democracy, the principle of which was that the majority should rule, and for bringing faddists of all kinds into Parliament, and establishing groups and disintegrating parties.
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Peace must be framed on so equitable a basis, that the nations would not wish to disturb it . . . so that the confidence of the German people shall be put in the equity of their cause and not in the might of their armies.
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You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience.
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One cannot cross an abyss in two jumps.
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Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.
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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.
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Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears, prejudices, misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.
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Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.
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By thetest of our faith thehighest standard ofcivilization is the readiness to sacrifice for others.
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If the people really knew [the truth] the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know and can't know.
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What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
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The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation - the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.
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David Lloyd George
- Born: January 17, 1863
- Died: March 26, 1945
- Occupation: Chancellor of the Exchequer
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