David Lloyd George Quotes
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There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.
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A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror - and they last…
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The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation -…
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Golf is the only game where the worst player gets the best of it. He obtains more out of it as regards both exercise and…
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You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience.
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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.
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Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.
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We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is drink.
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Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from…
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Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment
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He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.
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He is brilliant - to the top of his boots.
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The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.
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Who ordained that the few should have the land (of Britain) as a prerequisite; who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest…
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If you want to understand a subject promise to speak on it.
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Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue.
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The home front is always underrated by Generals in the field. And yet that is where the Great War was won and lost. The Russian,…
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The conventional heaven with its angels perpetually singing etc nearly drove me mad in my youth and made me an atheist for ten years. My…
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Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.
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What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood…
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