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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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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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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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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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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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[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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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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If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.
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The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers.
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Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people.
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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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When they circumcised Herbert Samuel they threw away the wrong bit
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The doctors are always changing their opinions. They always have some new fad.
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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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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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The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.
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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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Aristrocracy is like cheese. The older it is the higher it becomes.
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Great Britain would spend her last guinea to keep a navy superior to that of the United States or any other power.
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He is brilliant - to the top of his boots.
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