Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.
—David Lloyd George
The Landlord is a gentleman who does not earn his wealth. He has a host of agents and clerks that receive for him. He does not even take the trouble to spend his wealth. He has a host of people around him to do the actual spending. He never sees it until he comes to enjoy it. His sole function, his chief pride, is the stately consumption of wealth produced by others.
—David Lloyd George
The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.
—David Lloyd George
Topics: Danger
Sweating, slums, the sense of semi-slavery in labor, must go. We must cultivate a sense of manhood by treating men as men.
—David Lloyd George
Topics: Man
Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.
—David Lloyd George
Topics: Diplomacy
What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
—David Lloyd George
Topics: Heroes/Heroism, Heroes, Heroism
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.
—David Lloyd George
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.
—David Lloyd George
Topics: Poverty, The Poor
Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.
—David Lloyd George
Topics: Commitment, Success, Risk-taking, Graduation, Goals, Risk, Ambition
Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.
—David Lloyd George
Topics: Freedom
Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people.
—David Lloyd George
Topics: Death
There is nothing so fatal to character as half-finished tasks.
—David Lloyd George
Topics: Character, Procrastination
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.
—David Lloyd George
Topics: Aristocracy
With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.
—David Lloyd George
Topics: Change
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.
—David Lloyd George
Topics: Sacrifice
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.
—David Lloyd George
Topics: Politics, Politicians
The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.
—David Lloyd George
Topics: Conversation, Eloquence
Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.
—David Lloyd George
Topics: Freedom
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- William Ewart Gladstone English Liberal Statesman
- Harold Macmillan British Head of State
- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax British Politician
- Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor American-born British Politician
- John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn British Statesman
- Benjamin Disraeli British Head of State
- Margaret Thatcher British Head of State
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