David Lloyd George Quotes
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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I believe there is a new order coming for the people of this country. It is a quiet but certain revolution.
The Landlord is a gentleman … who does not earn his wealth.
[N]o one can doubt that Lenin was one of the greatest leaders of men ever thrown up in any epoch.
War Memoirs (1938)
I was walking peacefully along my path when suddenly I was assailed by an angry bull of excommunication.
What was the use of talking about freedom if they had millions of people tethered to slums?
Capital has been made for man, and not man for Capital.
There must be a greater co-partnership between Capital and Labour if you are to get the best out of both.
The Government can lose the war without you; they cannot win it without you.
Free Trade may be the alpha, but it is not the omega, of Liberal policy.
I feel I can't go on with this bloody business: I would rather resign.
The French would never have dared to do what they have done had it not been for the fall of the Coalition.
It was a treaty which might have been signed by a vanquished Power as far as British interests were concerned.
Anyhow, it is a different situation now to what it was then; Clemenceau had power; I shall wait until Winston is bust.
I have always stood during the whole of my life for the under-dog. I have not changed, and am going still to fight his battle.
The fact remains, that but for the distraction of Passchendaele, Turkey might have been forced to make peace, and the Black Sea might have been opened to Russia and Roumania.
War Memoirs (1938)
There are nightmares in which one welters amid a web of fettering strands and obstacles, and watches, wide-eyed, some doom approaching against which the strangled throat cannot force a sound of protest or appeal.
War Memoirs (1938)
Are you going to land in the sleepy hollow of Baldwinism or in the quagmire of protection?
We ought not to stint anything that is necessary in order to crush the rebellion.
He taunted me because I said that the proposals were not sufficiently bold. Bold! They are timid, pusillanimous and unintelligent.
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.