David Lloyd George Quotes


"With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation."
- David Lloyd George
(Related: Change, Trouble, Vacation)

"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."
- David Lloyd George
(Related: Politics, Blood, Sea, Storms, Want, Will)

"We are muddled into war."
- David Lloyd George
(Related: War)

"There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks."
- David Lloyd George
(Related: Character, Nothing)

"The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps."
- David Lloyd George
(Related: World)

"The finest eloquence is that which gets things done."
- David Lloyd George
(Related: Eloquence)

"Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men."
- David Lloyd George
(Related: Men, Blood, Quarrel, Reason, Right)

"A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman."
- David Lloyd George
(Related: Politics)

"Liberty has restraints but no frontiers."
- David Lloyd George
(Related: Liberty)

"Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."
- David Lloyd George
"Diplomats were invented simply to waste time."
- David Lloyd George
(Related: Time, Waste)

"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
(Related: Heart, Man, Old)

"You cannot feed the hungry on statistics."
- David Lloyd George
(Related: Statistics)

"Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired."
- David Lloyd George
(Related: Habit, Liberty, Privilege)

"What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in."
- David Lloyd George
(Related: Country, Heroes)