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David Lloyd George
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David Lloyd George
Age: 82 †
Born: 1863
Born: January 17
Died: 1945
Died: March 26
Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Civil Servant
Diplomat
Politician
Solicitor
Manchester
England
David Lloyd George
1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor
George David Lloyd
George Lloyd
Earl Lloyd-George
Lord Lloyd-George
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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 the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.
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The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.
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Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead.
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Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.
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A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.
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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.
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What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
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Anything can be achieved in small, deliberate steps. But there are times you need the courage to take a great leap you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
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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.
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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.
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Sincerity is the surest road to confidence.
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Hitler is a prodigious genius.
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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
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Aristrocracy is like cheese. The older it is the higher it becomes.
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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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If the people really knew [the truth] the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know and can't know.
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The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man who fires at it.
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When they circumcised Herbert Samuel they threw away the wrong bit
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Winston [Churchill] is the only remaining specimen of a real Tory.
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One cannot cross an abyss in two jumps.
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