David Lloyd George Quotes
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At eleven o’clock this morning came to an end the cruellest and most terrible War that has ever scourged mankind. I hope we may say that thus, this fateful morning, came to an end all wars.
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I sometimes wish that I were in the Labour Party. I would tear down all these institutions!
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What are ten, twenty, or thirty millions when the British Empire is at stake? This is an artillery war. We must have every gun we can lay hands upon.
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A ramshackle old empire.
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It is not too much to say that when the Great War broke out our Generals had the most important lessons of their art to learn. Before they began they had much to unlearn. Their brains were cluttered with useless lumber, packed in every niche and corner.
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Labourers had diminished, game had tripled. The landlord was no more necessary to agriculture than a gold chain to a watch.
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You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
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There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.
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This war, like the next war, is a war to end war.
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A free religion and a free people in a free land.
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What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
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Ah, Mein Kampf is a Magna Charta.
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Free Trade may be the alpha, but it is not the omega, of Liberal policy.
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Y Gwir Yn Erbyn Y Byd (Welsh: The truth against the world).
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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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Anyhow, it is a different situation now to what it was then; Clemenceau had power; I shall wait until Winston is bust.
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Landlords have no nationality; their characteristics are cosmopolitan.
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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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But they say, 'It is not so much the Dreadnoughts we object to, it is pensions'. If they objected to pensions, why did they promise them? They won elections on the strength of their promises. It is true they never carried them out. Deception is always a pretty contemptible vice, but to deceive the poor is the meanest of all.
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Four spectres 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.