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What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
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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Heroism
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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.
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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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If you listen to the neverdo's, it's never done.
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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 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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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.
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The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.
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Hitler is a prodigious genius.
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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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Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and who is punished for failure he is not responsible for by the starvation of his children--that torture is something that private enterprise ought to remedy for its own sake.
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Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead.
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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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Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.
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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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Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision...In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker.
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If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.
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The doctors are always changing their opinions. They always have some new fad.
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