David Lloyd George Quotes - Page 2

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Sincerity is the surest road to confidence.

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

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

If you want to understand a subject promise to speak on it.

It is either Christ or chaos.

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.

You cannot trust the interests of any class entirely to another class; and you cannot trust the interests of any sex to another sex.

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

God has chosen little nations as the vessels by which He carries His choicest wines to the lips of humanity to rejoice their hearts, to exalt their vision, to strengthen their faith, and if we had stood by when two little nations [Belgium and Serbia] were being crushed and broken by the brutal hands of barbarians, our shame would have rung down the everlasting ages.

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

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.

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

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

He is brilliant - to the top of his boots.

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

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.

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

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