Lloyd George

Lloyd George
David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, OM, PCwas a British Liberal politician and statesman...
banish drive four haunt horizon hunger mean poor sickness workman
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.
believe fairy heard meet seen stones t turn
I don t actually believe that stones turn into fairies, but I did once meet someone who had seen a fairy and heard a knocker.
character definition fresh specific symphonies
Each of my symphonies has a fresh character with a specific definition of their own.
park round shall stuff thinking wander
When I m old I shall give up writing the big stuff and shall wander round the park thinking of songs.
dash god influences
Verdi is my god and my other influences are Berlioz and Puccini, with a dash of Debussy in my orchestration.
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.
stupid savages temper
Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.