Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.
David Lloyd George
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
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
Angry
Blood
Quarrel
Reason
Swept
Right
Quarrels
Men
Shed
Aside
Rage
National
More quotes by David Lloyd George
Great Britain would spend her last guinea to keep a navy superior to that of the United States or any other power.
David Lloyd George
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
[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
The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers.
David Lloyd George
What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
David Lloyd George
Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead.
David Lloyd George
Sincerity is the surest road to confidence.
David Lloyd George
Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred it is a habit to be acquired.
David Lloyd George
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.
David Lloyd George
If you listen to the neverdo's, it's never done.
David Lloyd George
Neville [Chamberlain] has a retail mind in a wholesale business.
David Lloyd George
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
Wild men, screaming through the keyholes.
David Lloyd George
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
When they circumcised Herbert Samuel they threw away the wrong bit
David Lloyd George
Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue.
David Lloyd George
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.
David Lloyd George
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.
David Lloyd George
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.
David Lloyd George
If you want to understand a subject promise to speak on it.
David Lloyd George
