David Lloyd George
David Lloyd George
David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, OM, PCwas a British Liberal politician and statesman...
NationalityWelsh
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth17 January 1863
advice promise want
If you want to understand a subject promise to speak on it.
political mind retail
Neville [Chamberlain] has a retail mind in a wholesale business.
sea blood storm
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.
war home army
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.
democracies-have long people
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.
blow men fabric
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.
children work men
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.
death people rich
Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people.
winning men influence-and-power
I am the last man in the world to say that the succor which is given us from America is not in itself something to rejoice at greatly. But I also say that I can see more in the knowledge that America is going to win a right to be at the conference table when the terms of peace are discussed. . . . It would have been a tragedy for mankind if America had not been there, and there with all her influence and power.
war heart wine
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.
confidence sincerity
Sincerity is the surest road to confidence.
time waste diplomats
Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.
freedom liberty privilege
Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.
graduation commitment worthwhile-things
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.