David Lloyd George Quotes - Page 2

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• Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision...In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker.

  David Lloyd George

  Confused, Speech, Tests

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• Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

  David Lloyd George

  Time, Political, Politics

  On preparation for the Paris Peace Conference, November 1918.

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• You cannot trust the interests of any class entirely to another class; and you cannot trust the interests of any sex to another sex.

  David Lloyd George

  Sex, Class, Interest

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• Believe me, Germany is unable to wage war.

  David Lloyd George

  War, Believe, Germany

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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 enjoyment, for the good player gets worried over the slightest mistake, whereas the poor player makes too many mistakes to worry about them.

  David Lloyd George

  Mistake, Exercise, Golf

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• The nations slithered over the brink into the boiling cauldron of war without any trace of apprehension or dismay... The nations backed their machines over the precipice not one of them wanted war, certainly not on this scale

  David Lloyd George

  War, Machines, Cauldrons

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• Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

  David Lloyd George

  Freedom, Liberty, Restraint

  International Liberal Conference, July 1928.

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• It is either Christ or chaos.

  David Lloyd George

  Jesus, Chaos, Christ

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• Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue.

  David Lloyd George

  War, Independent, Army

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

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• Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.

  David Lloyd George

  Tree, Individual, Embrace

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• With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

  David Lloyd George

  Change, Vacation, Trouble

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• He is brilliant - to the top of his boots.

  David Lloyd George

  Sarcastic, Boots, Brilliant

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• By thetest of our faith thehighest standard ofcivilization is the readiness to sacrifice for others.

  David Lloyd George

  Sacrifice, Standards, Readiness

  1914 Speech in Queen's Hall, London, 21 Sep.

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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 longer.

  David Lloyd George

  Two, Political, Aristocracy

  Speech at Newcastle, 9 Oct. 1909, in The Times 11 Oct. 1909

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• Hitler is a prodigious genius.

  David Lloyd George

  Genius, Prodigious

  "Life with Lloyd George. The Diary of A. J. Sylvester 1931-45". Edited by Colin Cross, 1975.

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• If you want to understand a subject promise to speak on it.

  David Lloyd George

  Advice, Promise, Want

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• 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.

  David Lloyd George

  Democracies Have, Long, People

  David Lloyd George “War Memoirs of David Lloyd George: 1917-1918”

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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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• He [Hitler] is a very great man. "Fuhrer" is the proper name for him, for he is a born leader, yes, and statesman.

  David Lloyd George

  Men, Names, Leader

  "Life with Lloyd George. The Diary of A. J. Sylvester 1931-45". Book by A. J. Sylvester, 1975.

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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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• God has chosen little nations as the vessels by which He carries His choicest wines to the lips of humanity to rejoice their hearts, to exalt their vision, to strengthen their faith, and if we had stood by when two little nations [Belgium and Serbia] were being crushed and broken by the brutal hands of barbarians, our shame would have rung down the everlasting ages.

  David Lloyd George

  War, Heart, Wine

  "The Great War". David Lloyd George's Speech delivered at the Queen's Hall, London, September 19, 1914.

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• The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers.

  David Lloyd George

  Aunt, Government, Political

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• [The General Staff] maintained three sets of casualty figures, one to fool the public, one to fool the Government and one to fool themselves.

  David Lloyd George

  Government, Three, Fool

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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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• The doctors are always changing their opinions. They always have some new fad.

  David Lloyd George

  Doctors, Fads, Opinion

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