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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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He won't fight the Germans but he will fight for Office.
If the whole truth, as it was known at the time to the military staffs, had been exposed before the members of the War Committee, the Flanders offensive would have been turned down.
War Memoirs (1938)
What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
I am now approaching the narrowest and the most threatening gorge in the mad voyage, with one particularly jagged rock right in the middle of the stream and to all appearances barring the way.
War Memoirs (1938)
Luckily, you have Britain up to its armpits in salt water, and therefore alone remaining cool.
If Britannia ruled the waves, she did it with a shaky trident in the days before the submarine was overcome.
War Memoirs (1938)
He is the best living embodiment of the Liberal doctrine that quality is not hereditary.
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.
The white sheet of repentance is a very poor substitute for a mainsail.
Landlords have no nationality; their characteristics are cosmopolitan.
If Toryism stands alone, fighting the extremists of the Socialist Party, it will not be long before the existing order is overthrown.
Liberalism stands for the safe middle course.
We are offering Ireland not subjection but equality, not servitude but partnership—an honourable partnership, a partnership in the greatest Empire in the world—a partnership in that Empire in the greatest day of its glory.
This, Mr. Emmot, is a war Budget. It is for raising money to wage implacable warfare against poverty and squalidness.
Restore the village life of England to its original brilliancy and glory. Every labourer should have half an acre as a right.
Y Gwir Yn Erbyn Y Byd (Welsh: The truth against the world).
It is no use simply saying, "Little children, love one another," if one set of children can get nearly all the toffee and the others have very little.
There is no wrath like the cold fury of the professional spirit proved wrong by outsiders, and no folly comparable to its reactions under such conditions.
War Memoirs (1938)
Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.
No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it....My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under.