David Lloyd George Quotes

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

If the people really knew [the truth] the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know and can't know.

What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.

We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is drink.

If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.

The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.

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.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.

Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite, who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

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.

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.

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.

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

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.

Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision...In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker.

Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment

The League of Nations is the greatest humbug in history. They cannot even protect a little nation like Armenia. They do nothing but pass useless resolutions.

Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead.

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

Do not be afraid of taking a big step-you cannot cross a chasm in two steps.

He is brilliant - to the top of his boots.

Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.

Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue.

A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror - and they last longer.

It is either Christ or chaos.

The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers.

When they circumcised Herbert Samuel they threw away the wrong bit

The doctors are always changing their opinions. They always have some new fad.

Sincerity is the surest road to confidence.

You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

By thetest of our faith thehighest standard ofcivilization is the readiness to sacrifice for others.

If you listen to the neverdo's, it's never done.

He [Hitler] is a very great man. "Fuhrer" is the proper name for him, for he is a born leader, yes, and statesman.

Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.

A body of 500 men chosen at random from amongst the unemployed.

Aristrocracy is like cheese. The older it is the higher it becomes.

Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people.

It is always too late, or too little, or both. And that is the road to disaster.

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.

Hitler is a prodigious genius.

Wild men, screaming through the keyholes.

There is nothing more dangerous than to leap a chasm in two jumps.

You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience.

[The General Staff] maintained three sets of casualty figures, one to fool the public, one to fool the Government and one to fool themselves.

Winston [Churchill] is the only remaining specimen of a real Tory.