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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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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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[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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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.
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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 cannot trust the interests of any class entirely to another class and you cannot trust the interests of any sex to another sex.
David Lloyd George
Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.
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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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Wild men, screaming through the keyholes.
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Sincerity is the surest road to confidence.
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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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It is always too late, or too little, or both. And that is the road to disaster.
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The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers.
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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 doctors are always changing their opinions. They always have some new fad.
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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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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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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 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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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred it is a habit to be acquired.
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