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David Lloyd George was a British statesman who served as Prime Minister during the latter part of World War I. As a transformative leader, he played a crucial role in social reform and wartime governance. He helped shape modern Britain and left a lasting legacy in both domestic and foreign policy. Here are 251 of his quotes:

Quite frankly, I think Hitler will win. I do not say that Hitler will be able to invade this country. It is a very difficult channel to cross. Lots of people have tried it, including Napoleon...I would not have gone to war without having Russia on our side. It was an idiotic thing to do. (David Lloyd George)
I feel I can't go on with this bloody business: I would rather resign. View quote
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There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks. View quote
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He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul. View quote
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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation. View quote
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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. View quote
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The centuries rarely produce a genius. It is our bad luck that the great genius of our era was granted to the Turkish nation. We could not beat Mustafa Kemal. View quote
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The fight must be to a finish-to a knock-out. View quote
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Against enemy machine-gun posts and wire entanglements the most gallant and best-led men could only throw away their precious lives in successive waves of heroic martyrdom. Their costly sacrifice could avail nothing for the winning of victory. View quote
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This, Mr. Emmot, is a war Budget. It is for raising money to wage implacable warfare against poverty and squalidness. View quote
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The Landlord is a gentleman ... who does not earn his wealth. (David Lloyd George)
We are offering Ireland not subjection but equality, not servitude but partnership. View quote
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This war, like the next war, is a war to end war. View quote
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The truth against the world. View quote
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When I come along [to the landlord] and say, "Here, gentlemen, you have escaped long enough, it is your turn now, I want you to pay just 5 per cent. on the £10,000 odd," they reply:-"Five per cent? You are a thief; you are worse, you are an attorney; worst of all, you are a Welshman." That always is the crowning epithet. I do not apologize, and I do not mind telling you that if I could, I would not; I am proud of the little land among the hills...Whenever they hurl my nationality at my head, I say to them, "You Unionists, you hypocrites, Pharisees, you are the people who in every peroration...always talk about our being one kith and kin throughout the Empire...and yet if any man dares to aspire to any position, if he does not belong to the particular nationality which they have dignified by choosing their parents from, they have no use for him." View quote
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All down history nine-tenths of mankind have been grinding the corn for the remaining tenth, and been paid with the husks and bidden to thank God they had the husk. View quote
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We have murder by the throat. View quote
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Practically the whole of the engineering establishments of this country were controlled by the State. He had seen resolutions passed by the Trades Congress about the nationalization of industry, but the Government had done it. View quote
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I am fighting hard for peace. View quote
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Nothing struck me so much in the war as the disappearance of the individual, of the human being... I saw what the State machine was, that it destroyed the individual, absorbed him to itself, and I said, "Give me Liberty." View quote
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The question was whether the Liberal Party was going to be merely a political party which is "the Keeper of the Doctrines." (David Lloyd George)
I do like to work on a Marvel method, so if I've got the opportunity, and the writer is happy to do it, I like to have a writer detail what happens on a page, but not saying what happens in every scene. View quote
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But if you have a point of view and you're an artist or a writer, it's kind of crazy to not take advantage of that, especially if you can do something that's entertaining as well. I've done a number of things like that over the years. View quote
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Alan was always interested in politics in a major way. He actually believes that anarchy is a politically viable system, but I don't. I was always interested in putting forward the ideas that represented my viewpoint. I feel the same about anything I'm doing. View quote
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When we were talking about this, an idea for this master vigilante, it was an urban guerilla. One of my ideas was that he would be a member of the police force who turned on the government. View quote
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Occupation: Welsh Minister
Born: January 17, 1863
Died: March 26, 1945
Quotes count: 251
Wikipedia: David Lloyd George

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