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1863–1945 England

David Lloyd George (17 January 1863 – 26 March 1945) was a British politician, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922.

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A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.

The British System of Government (1965)

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.

Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people.

A free religion and a free people in a free land.

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

I have never met a happier people than the Germans and Hitler is one of the greatest men.

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

There is nothing which is worth selling your freedom for.

Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.

War Memoirs (1942)

There is no greater mistake than to try to leap an abyss in two jumps.

War Memoirs (1938)

There can be no question that one outstanding reason for the high level of loyalty and patriotic effort which the people of this country maintained was the attitude and conduct of King George V.

War Memoirs (1938)

The men and women of this country will be burnt into fine building material for the new Britain in the fiery kilns of the war.

Politicians are liable to be attacked from every flank—simultaneously. They are suspicious, subtle, crafty and designing, and at the same time they are gullible, simple and foolish.

War Memoirs (1938)

This is a direct attack on one class in the community, and that the largest, and the class that can least afford it.

Sincerity is the surest road to confidence.

All taxation must be a tax upon industry.

The fight must be to a finish—to a knock-out.

Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite, who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?

Great Britain would spend her last guinea to keep a navy superior to that of the United States or any other power.

The police feel that the time has come for them to defend themselves, and that is what is called reprisals in Ireland.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: David Lloyd George (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.