David Lloyd George Quotes
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I am making a good fight for the old country & there is no one but me who could do it.
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Lloyd George then went on to say that the Imperial Conference had had a meeting that morning, and that he, Smuts, Hughes and Massey did not intend to allow the British Empire to take a back seat. Gt Britain had won the war. She had made enormous sacrifices in men and money, and they were quite determined that she should not be overshadowed by America.
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What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
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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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I sometimes wish that I were in the Labour Party. I would tear down all these institutions!
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There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.
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You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
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Landlords have no nationality; their characteristics are cosmopolitan.
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Free Trade may be the alpha, but it is not the omega, of Liberal policy.
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A free religion and a free people in a free land.
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Ah, Mein Kampf is a Magna Charta.
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Y Gwir Yn Erbyn Y Byd (Welsh: The truth against the world).
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This war, like the next war, is a war to end war.
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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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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.
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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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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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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.