David Lloyd George Quotes

• A good lord mayor of Birmingham in a lean year.

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• It is the old trouble—too late in dealing with Czechoslovakia, too late with Poland, and certainly too late with Finland. It is always too late, or too little, or both. That is the road to disaster.

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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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• Give it because it is right. Give it because it is just. Give it because it is good for Ireland and good for the United Kingdom. Give it because it brings peace and good will, but do not give it because you are bullied by assassins.

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• At eleven o’clock this morning came to an end the cruellest and most terrible war that has ever scourged mankind. I hope we may say that thus, this fateful morning, came to an end all wars.

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• It is a great war for the emancipation of Europe from the thralldom of a military caste which has thrown its shadows upon two generations of men, and is now plunging the world into a welter of bloodshed and death.

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• By the test of our faith the highest standard of civilization is the readiness to sacrifice for others.

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• Four spectres 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.

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• We are placing the burdens on the broadest shoulders. I made up my mind that, in forming the Budget, no cupboard should be barer, no lot should be harder to bear.

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• There are no credentials. They do not even need a medical certificate. They need not be sound either in body or mind. They only require a certificate of birth—just to prove that they were the first of the litter. You would not choose a spaniel on those principles.

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• This is the trusty mastiff that is to watch over our interests, but which runs away at the first snarl of the trade unions. A mastiff? It is the right honourable gentleman’s poodle. It fetches and carries for him. It barks for him. It bites anybody that he sets it on.

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• With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

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• What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.

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• 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.

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• We are muddled into war.

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• There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

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• The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

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• The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

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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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• Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

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David Lloyd George (28)

Birth:	17th January, 1863
Death:	26th March, 1945
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Lawyer, Politician

About

David Lloyd George was born in Chorlton-on-Medlock, Lancashire, England. He was a British politician and lawyer. As Chancellor of the Exchequer, he was a key figure in the introduction of many reforms which laid the foundations of the modern welfare state. His most important role came as the highly energetic Prime Minister of the Wartime Coalition Government, during and immediately after the First World War. He was a major player at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 that reordered Europe after the defeat of Germany in the Great War. Although many Prime Ministers have been barristers, Lloyd George is to date the only solicitor to have held that office.

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