David Lloyd George Quotes
Enjoy the top 71 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by David Lloyd George.
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
“The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.”
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— David Lloyd George
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
He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.
— David Lloyd George
“What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.”
— David Lloyd George
Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.
— David Lloyd George
Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.
— David Lloyd George
Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.
— David Lloyd George
If the people really knew [the truth] the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know and can't know.
— David Lloyd George
— David Lloyd George
“Do not be afraid of taking a big step-you cannot cross a chasm in two steps.”
— David Lloyd George
Who ordained that the few should have the land (of Britain) as a prerequisite; who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?
— David Lloyd George
“It is either Christ or chaos.”
— David Lloyd George
Sincerity is the surest road to confidence.
— David Lloyd George
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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— David Lloyd George
If you want to understand a subject promise to speak on it.
— David Lloyd George
“Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.”
— David Lloyd George
“Winston [Churchill] is the only remaining specimen of a real Tory.”
— David Lloyd George
“Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead.”
— David Lloyd George
Aristrocracy is like cheese. The older it is the higher it becomes.
— David Lloyd George
“Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.”
— David Lloyd George
When they circumcised Herbert Samuel they threw away the wrong bit
— David Lloyd George
— David Lloyd George
You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience.
— David Lloyd George
“The doctors are always changing their opinions. They always have some new fad.”
— David Lloyd George
The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.
— David Lloyd George
“Neville [Chamberlain] has a retail mind in a wholesale business.”
— David Lloyd George
“If you listen to the neverdo's, it's never done.”
— David Lloyd George
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.
— David Lloyd George
“Believe me, Germany is unable to wage war.”
— David Lloyd George
“If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.”
— David Lloyd George
“The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers.”
— David Lloyd George
“Hitler is a prodigious genius.”
— David Lloyd George
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