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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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Britain
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Heroism
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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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Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people.
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If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.
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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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Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.
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He is brilliant - to the top of his boots.
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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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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred it is a habit to be acquired.
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Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead.
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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.
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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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Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue.
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Neville [Chamberlain] has a retail mind in a wholesale business.
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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.
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The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers.
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A body of 500 men chosen at random from amongst the unemployed.
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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.
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Hitler is a prodigious genius.
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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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