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45 Copy quote. Believe me, Germany is unable to wage war. David Lloyd George. War, Believe, Germany. 4 Copy quote. Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people. David Lloyd George. Death, People, Political. "Lord Riddell's Intimate Diary of the Peace Conference and After, 1918-1923".
Find inspirational and motivational quotes by David Lloyd George, the Welsh statesman and prime minister of the United Kingdom during World War I. Learn from his wisdom on topics such as politics, diplomacy, liberty and socialism.
- 1880s
- Early Political Career
- President of The Board of Trade
- Chancellor of The Exchequer
- Minister of Munitions
- Secretary of State For War
- Prime Minister
- Leader of The National Liberal Party
- Leader of The Liberal Party in The House of Commons
- Leader of The Liberal Party
I will not say but that I eyed the assembly in a spirit similar to that in which William the Conqueror eyed England on his visit to Edward the Confessor, as the region of his future domain. Oh, van...
A free religion and a free people in a free land.Why had Wales made sacrifices in the face of unexampled difficulties and intimidation from squires and agents? It was not to install one statesman in power. It was not to deprive one party of power...[I believe in Oliver Cromwell] because he was a great fighting Dissenter. He was perhaps the first statesman to recognize that as soon as the Government became a democracy the Churches became direc...Mr. Chamberlain is right in so far as he says that things are not well in this country. We cannot feed the hungry with statistics of national prosperity, or stop the pangs of famine by reciting to...As our fathers had freed our trade there was another work to accomplish. This was to free the land from the chains of feudalism, the schools from the dominion of the priest, and the people from the...I believe there is a new order coming for the people of this country. It is a quiet but certain revolution.
Free Trade is a great pacificator. We have had many quarrels, many causes of quarrels, during the last fifty years, but we have not had a single war with any first-class Power. Free Trade is slowly...
We won and saved our liberties in this land on more than one occasion by compulsory service. France saved the liberty she had won in the great Revolution from the fangs of tyrannical military empir...
The British soldier is a good sportsman. He enlisted in this war in a sporting spirit—in the best sense of that term. He went in to see fair play to a small nation trampled upon by a bully. He is f...
Haig does not care how many men he loses. He just squanders the lives of these boys. I mean to save some of them in the future. He seems to think they are his property. I am their trustee. I will n...
I have never concealed...that my sympathies were always democratic and progressive... [M]y upbringing, my sympathy, my whole bent of mind is democratic... I was concerned for the difficulties of th...
Toryism would confiscate, in the interests of a private monopoly, the produce of the industry, the toil, the capital, the risk and the effort of others. Socialism would also confiscate, in the inte...
The Chinese were highly civilised when the ancient Britons, to whom he belonged, were barbarian. This was an old, enlightened, and vast community of hard-working people, yet they were deprived of r...
It was an idiotic thing to do. David Lloyd George. The great peaks of honour we had forgotten—Duty, Patriotism, and—clad in glittering white—the great pinnacle of Sacrifice, pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven. David Lloyd George. The truth is that we have got our way. We have got most of the things we set out to get.
Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics. Will. David Lloyd George. 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. David Lloyd George. He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul. Soul. David Lloyd George.
Explore 30 inspirational quotes by David Lloyd George, a prominent British statesman and Prime Minister during World War I. Learn about his life, achievements, and views on politics, leadership, and character.
Find 20 of the best quotes by David Lloyd George, the Welsh lawyer, politician and prime minister who led Britain in WWI. Learn about his life, achievements, controversies and trivia from his biography.
