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
political mind retail
Neville [Chamberlain] has a retail mind in a wholesale business.
men political wild-man
Wild men, screaming through the keyholes.
men political body
A body of 500 men chosen at random from amongst the unemployed.
political politician agree
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
aunt government political
The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers.
running political world
The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.
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."
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.
too-late littles disaster
It is always too late, or too little, or both. And that is the road to disaster.
two dangerous leap
There is nothing more dangerous than to leap a chasm in two jumps.
sorry sea america
[Lloyd George] said that Harding 's speech on American naval aspirations made him feel that he would pawn his shirt rather than allow America to dominate the seas. If this was to be the outcome of the League of Nations propaganda, he was sorry for the world and in particular for America.
league armenia useless
The League of Nations is the greatest humbug in history. They cannot even protect a little nation like Armenia. They do nothing but pass useless resolutions.
navy lasts united-states
Great Britain would spend her last guinea to keep a navy superior to that of the United States or any other power.