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If you listen to the neverdo's, it's never done.
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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The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers.
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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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The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.
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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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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.
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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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What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
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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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Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.
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Aristrocracy is like cheese. The older it is the higher it becomes.
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Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead.
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Hitler is a prodigious genius.
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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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[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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The home front is always underrated by Generals in the field. And yet that is where the Great War was won and lost. The Russian, Bulgarian, Austrian and German home fronts fell to pieces before their armies collapsed.
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Wild men, screaming through the keyholes.
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If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.
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