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
war believe air-power
Believe me, Germany is unable to wage war.
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.
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.
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
war independent army
Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue.
war people would-be
If the people really knew [the truth] the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know and can't know.
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.
party democracy majority
[Proportional representation is a] device for defeating democracy, the principle of which was that the majority should rule, and for bringing faddists of all kinds into Parliament, and establishing groups and disintegrating parties.
motivational two steps
Anything can be achieved in small, deliberate steps. But there are times you need the courage to take a great leap; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
genius prodigious
Hitler is a prodigious genius.