David Lloyd George

(345 votes)   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

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(324 votes)   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
1863-1945, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(287 votes)   The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation -- the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.

David Lloyd George
1863-1945, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(257 votes)   The Landlord is a gentleman who does not earn his wealth. He has a host of agents and clerks that receive for him. He does not even take the trouble to spend his wealth. He has a host of people around him to do the actual spending. He never sees it until he comes to enjoy it. His sole function, his chief pride, is the stately consumption of wealth produced by others.

David Lloyd George
1863-1945, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(251 votes)   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.

David Lloyd George
1863-1945, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(142 votes)   The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.

David Lloyd George
1863-1945, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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

David Lloyd George
1863-1945, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(138 votes)   Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

David Lloyd George
1863-1945, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(138 votes)   Four specters 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.

David Lloyd George
1863-1945, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(131 votes)   There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

David Lloyd George
1863-1945, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(127 votes)   With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

David Lloyd George
1863-1945, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(123 votes)   Who ordained that the few should have the land (of Britain) as a prerequisite; who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?

David Lloyd George

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(121 votes)   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
1863-1945, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(118 votes)   Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

David Lloyd George
1863-1945, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(100 votes)   Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

David Lloyd George
1863-1945, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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