Quotes from David Lloyd George

You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience.

Wild men, screaming through the keyholes.

Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears, prejudices, misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.

If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

He is one of those giant figures, of whom there are very few in history, who lose their nationality in death.

If you look at his portraits they always give you an indelible impression of his great height. So does his life. Height of purpose, height of ideal, height of character, height of intelligence.

The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things that matter for a nation; the great peaks of honour we had forgotten - duty and patriotism, clad in glittering white; the great pinnacle of sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to heaven.

You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.

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.

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

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.

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

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.

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

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

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

You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

Great Britain would spend her last guinea to keep a navy superior to that of the United States or any other power.