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
two cost lasts
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.
confused speech tests
Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision...In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker.
war machines dismay
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
sarcastic iron long
He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.
running political world
The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.
courage two steps
Do not be afraid of taking a big step-you cannot cross a chasm in two steps.
doctors fads opinion
The doctors are always changing their opinions. They always have some new fad.
war independent army
Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue.
mean heart land
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.
waiting political grandfather
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."
character procrastination half
There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.
change vacation trouble
With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.
country hero political
What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
political succeed want
If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.