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Winston [Churchill] is the only remaining specimen of a real Tory.
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
Specimen
Winston
Tory
Churchill
Remaining
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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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Aristrocracy is like cheese. The older it is the higher it becomes.
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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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Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue.
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If you want to understand a subject promise to speak on it.
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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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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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[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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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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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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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 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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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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Explain to me again the difference between superstitious beliefs or pagan incantations, and scientific ones. Be braver - you cannot cross a chasm in two small jumps.
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One cannot cross an abyss in two jumps.
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Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.
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A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.
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The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers.
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He is brilliant - to the top of his boots.
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