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• Great men sometimes lose the reins and lose their heads. This time, let us hope that they will retain them and that when victory is assured they will sit down and reckon what the future is going to be for their countries as well as for other lands.

  David Lloyd George

  Hope, Country, 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 on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

  David Lloyd George

  Blood, Sea, Storm

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

  David Lloyd George

  Freedom, Liberty, Privilege

  Speech in the House of Commons, May 10, 1928.

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• A body of 500 men chosen at random from amongst the unemployed.

  David Lloyd George

  Men, Political, Body

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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.

  David Lloyd George

  Character, Golf, Men

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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, Bulgarian, Austrian and German home fronts fell to pieces before their armies collapsed.

  David Lloyd George

  War, Home, Army

  David Lloyd George “War Memoirs of David Lloyd George: 1918”

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• If you listen to the neverdo's, it's never done.

  David Lloyd George

  Listening, Done, Ifs

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• The Bolshevists would blow up the fabric with high explosive, with horror. Others would pull down with the crowbars and with cranks--especially with cranks. . . . Sweating, slums, the sense of semi-slavery in labour, must go. We must cultivate a sense of manhood by treating men as men.

  David Lloyd George

  Blow, Men, Fabric

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

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• Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead.

  David Lloyd George

  Principles, Conviction, Vulture

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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 opinion is that we shall be reincarnated.

  David Lloyd George

  Atheist, Angel, Years

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• Wild men, screaming through the keyholes.

  David Lloyd George

  Men, Political, Wild Man

  David Lloyd George (1938). “The Truth about the Peace Treaties”

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• 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

  Men, House, Prejudice

  1927 Speech, Cambridge.

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• I am the last man in the world to say that the succor which is given us from America is not in itself something to rejoice at greatly. But I also say that I can see more in the knowledge that America is going to win a right to be at the conference table when the terms of peace are discussed. . . . It would have been a tragedy for mankind if America had not been there, and there with all her influence and power.

  David Lloyd George

  Men, Winning, Influence And Power

  Speech at the Meeting of American Residents in London, April 12, 1917.

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• Neville [Chamberlain] has a retail mind in a wholesale business.

  David Lloyd George

  Political, Mind, Retail

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• You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

  David Lloyd George

  Graduation, Commitment, Two

  "Design for Power : The Struggle for the World". Book by Frederick Lewis Schuman, 1941.

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• [Proportional representation is a] device for defeating democracy, the principle of which was that the majority should rule, and for bringing faddists of all kinds into Parliament, and establishing groups and disintegrating parties.

  David Lloyd George

  Party, Democracy, Principles

  "The Political Diaries of C. P. Scott, 1911-1928". Book by Charles Prestwich Scott, 1970.

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• 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

  Navy, United States, Lasts

  "The Intimate Papers of Colonel House. Volume IV". Book by Charles Seymour, 1928.

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• [Lloyd George] said that Harding's speech on American naval aspirations made him feel that he would pawn his shirt rather than allow America to dominate the seas. If this was to be the outcome of the League of Nations propaganda, he was sorry for the world and in particular for America.

  David Lloyd George

  Sorry, Sea, America

  "The Riddell Diaries 1908-1923". Book by George Allardice Riddell, 1986.

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• There is nothing more dangerous than to leap a chasm in two jumps.

  David Lloyd George

  Two, Dangerous, Leap

  "Design for Power : The Struggle for the World". Book by Frederick Lewis Schuman, 1941.

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• Explain to me again the difference between superstitious beliefs or pagan incantations, and scientific ones. Be braver - you cannot cross a chasm in two small jumps.

  David Lloyd George

  Two, Differences, Belief

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• One cannot cross an abyss in two jumps.

  David Lloyd George

  Two, Crosses, Abyss

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• Winston [Churchill] is the only remaining specimen of a real Tory.

  David Lloyd George

  Real

  "Lloyd George: A DiaryB". Book by Frances Lloyd George, 1971.

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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 - the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.

  David Lloyd George

  Fate, Sacrifice, Hands

  Speech in Queen's Hall, London, September 19, 1914.

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