Quotes from David Lloyd George

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

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people.

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.

There are no credentials. They do not even need a medical certificate. They need not be sound either in body or mind. They only require a certificate of birth -just to prove they are first of the litter. You would not choose a Spaniel on these principles. (On aristocracy)

Whenever the Germans found the Canadian Corps coming into the line, they prepared for the worst.

If the people really knew [the truth] the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know and can't know.

Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue.

He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.

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

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

Believe me, Germany is unable to wage war.

Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.

The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man who fires at it.

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

There is no greater mistake than to try to leap an abyss in two jumps.

He [Hitler] is a very great man. "Fuhrer" is the proper name for him, for he is a born leader, yes, and statesman.

A body of 500 men chosen at random from amongst the unemployed.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

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.

Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment