Top 76 Quotes & Sayings by David Lloyd George
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Welsh celebrity David Lloyd George.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.
Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.
There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.
A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.
The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.
The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.
We are muddled into war.
He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.
Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.
With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.
God has chosen little nations as the vessels by which He carries His choicest wines to the lips of humanity to rejoice their hearts, to exalt their vision, to strengthen their faith, and if we had stood by when two little nations [Belgium and Serbia] were being crushed and broken by the brutal hands of barbarians, our shame would have rung down the everlasting ages.
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.
The doctors are always changing their opinions. They always have some new fad.
[The General Staff] maintained three sets of casualty figures, one to fool the public, one to fool the Government and one to fool themselves.
When they circumcised Herbert Samuel they threw away the wrong bit
The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.
The home front is always underrated by Generals in the field. And yet that is where the Great War was won and lost. The Russian, Bulgarian, Austrian and German home fronts fell to pieces before their armies collapsed.
Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision...In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker.
Wild men, screaming through the keyholes.
You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience.
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?
Aristrocracy is like cheese. The older it is the higher it becomes.
Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment
If you listen to the neverdo's, it's never done.
The conventional heaven with its angels perpetually singing etc nearly drove me mad in my youth and made me an atheist for ten years. My opinion is that we shall be reincarnated.
The nations slithered over the brink into the boiling cauldron of war without any trace of apprehension or dismay... The nations backed their machines over the precipice not one of them wanted war, certainly not on this scale
Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people.
Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.
If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.
We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is drink.
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.
It is always too late, or too little, or both. And that is the road to disaster.
It is either Christ or chaos.
No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under.
Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue.
Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.
Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead.
Sincerity is the surest road to confidence.
The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers.
He is brilliant - to the top of his boots.
Hitler is a prodigious genius.
Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.
Anything can be achieved in small, deliberate steps. But there are times you need the courage to take a great leap; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
The League of Nations is the greatest humbug in history. They cannot even protect a little nation like Armenia. They do nothing but pass useless resolutions.
One day while Lloyd George was making a political speech before a big crowd, a heckler yelled, "Wait a minute, Mr. George. Isn't it true your grandfather used to peddle tinware around here in an oxcart hauled by a donkey?" Lloyd George replied, "I digress just a moment and thank the gentlemen for calling that to my attention. It is true, my dear old grandfather used to peddle tinware with an old cart and a donkey. As a matter of fact, after this meeting is over, if my friend will come with me, I will show him that old cart, but I never knew until this minute what became of the ass."
He [Hitler] is a very great man. "Fuhrer" is the proper name for him, for he is a born leader, yes, and statesman.
Believe me, Germany is unable to wage war.
You cannot trust the interests of any class entirely to another class; and you cannot trust the interests of any sex to another sex.
Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and who is punished for failure he is not responsible for by the starvation of his children--that torture is something that private enterprise ought to remedy for its own sake.
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.
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.
If the people really knew [the truth] the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know and can't know.
By thetest of our faith thehighest standard ofcivilization is the readiness to sacrifice for others.
Do not be afraid of taking a big step-you cannot cross a chasm in two steps.
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