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Chancellor Of The Exchequer Inspirational Quotes (66)

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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
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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred it is a habit to be acquired.
David Lloyd George
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Karl Marx himself preferred a glass of claret to the mug of tea affected by some of his recent converts.
Denis Healey
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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
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Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
David Lloyd George
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When they circumcised Herbert Samuel they threw away the wrong bit
David Lloyd George
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Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.
David Lloyd George
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Neville [Chamberlain] has a retail mind in a wholesale business.
David Lloyd George
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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
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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
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Winston [Churchill] is the only remaining specimen of a real Tory.
David Lloyd George
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Being attacked by him is like being savaged by a dead sheep.
Denis Healey
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Are not the worst examples of architecture to be found in private enterprise in cheap jerry-built homes?
Hugh Dalton
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The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.
David Lloyd George
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree no one individual can embrace it.
David Lloyd George
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Unless you understand the history of a situation, you can't ever hope to solve problems.
Denis Healey
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War inside countries is all too common.
Denis Healey
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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
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Sincerity is the surest road to confidence.
David Lloyd George
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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
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Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people.
David Lloyd George
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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
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Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.
David Lloyd George
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The right hon. Gentleman will be known for ever as the only Chancellor in the post-war period who brought this country to the brink of bankruptcy.
Denis Healey
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