Lloyd George

Lloyd George
David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, OM, PCwas a British Liberal politician and statesman...
sex class interest
You cannot trust the interests of any class entirely to another class; and you cannot trust the interests of any sex to another sex.
aunt government political
The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers.
character golf men
You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience.
age four poverty
Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment
freedom should-have land
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?
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.