David Lloyd George Quotes

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

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

Peace must be framed on so equitable a basis, that the nations would not wish to disturb it . . . so that the confidence of the German people shall be put in the equity of their cause and not in the might of their armies.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

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

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

One day while Lloyd George was making a political speech before a big crowd, a heckler yelled, "Wait a minute, Mr. George. Isn't it true your grandfather used to peddle tinware around here in an oxcart hauled by a donkey?" Lloyd George replied, "I digress just a moment and thank the gentlemen for calling that to my attention. It is true, my dear old grandfather used to peddle tinware with an old cart and a donkey. As a matter of fact, after this meeting is over, if my friend will come with me, I will show him that old cart, but I never knew until this minute what became of the ass."

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.

Believe me, Germany is unable to wage war.

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?

Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people.

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

When they circumcised Herbert Samuel they threw away the wrong bit

Hitler is a prodigious genius.

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

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

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

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