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Wild men, screaming through the keyholes.
— David Lloyd George
What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
— David Lloyd George
Winston [Churchill] is the only remaining specimen of a real Tory.
— David Lloyd George
Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.
— David Lloyd George
Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.
— David Lloyd George
Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people.
— David Lloyd George
The doctors are always changing their opinions. They always have some new fad.
— David Lloyd George
He is brilliant - to the top of his boots.
— David Lloyd George
He [Hitler] is a very great man. "Fuhrer" is the proper name for him, for he is a born leader, yes, and statesman.
— David Lloyd George
The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.
— David Lloyd George
Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision ... In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker.
— David Lloyd George
Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.
— David Lloyd George
The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers.
— David Lloyd George
By thetest of our faith thehighest standard ofcivilization is the readiness to sacrifice for others.
— David Lloyd George
The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man who fires at it.
— David Lloyd George
You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience.
— David Lloyd George
There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.
— David Lloyd George
There is no greater mistake than to try to leap an abyss in two jumps.
— David Lloyd George
Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears, prejudices, misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.
— David Lloyd George
We are muddled into war.
— David Lloyd George
Do not be afraid of taking a big step-you cannot cross a chasm in two steps.
— David Lloyd George
Aristrocracy is like cheese. The older it is the higher it becomes.
— David Lloyd George
If you want to understand a subject promise to speak on it.
— David Lloyd George
A body of 500 men chosen at random from amongst the unemployed.
— David Lloyd George
He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.
— David Lloyd George
A tired nation, said David Lloyd George, is a Tory nation, and the United States today cannot afford to be either tired or Tory.
— John F. Kennedy
You cannot trust the interests of any class entirely to another class; and you cannot trust the interests of any sex to another sex.
— David Lloyd George
[The General Staff] maintained three sets of casualty figures, one to fool the public, one to fool the Government and one to fool themselves.
— David Lloyd George
Sincerity is the surest road to confidence.
— David Lloyd George
We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is drink.
— David Lloyd George
One cannot cross an abyss in two jumps.
— David Lloyd George
If the people really knew [the truth] the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know and can't know.
— David Lloyd George
Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.
— David Lloyd George
A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.
— David Lloyd George
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
— David Lloyd George
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.
— David Lloyd George
Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.
— David Lloyd George
Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue.
— David Lloyd George
Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.
— David Lloyd George
Great Britain would spend her last guinea to keep a navy superior to that of the United States or any other power.
— David Lloyd George
Believe me, Germany is unable to wage war.
— David Lloyd George
It is always too late, or too little, or both. And that is the road to disaster.
— David Lloyd George
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
— David Lloyd George
The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.
— David Lloyd George
If you listen to the neverdo's, it's never done.
— David Lloyd George
Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead.
— David Lloyd George
When they circumcised Herbert Samuel they threw away the wrong bit
— David Lloyd George
If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.
— David Lloyd George
With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.
— David Lloyd George
Hitler is a prodigious genius.
— David Lloyd George
It is either Christ or chaos.
— David Lloyd George
Neville [Chamberlain] has a retail mind in a wholesale business.
— David Lloyd George