David Lloyd George Quotes

There Is Nothing More Dangerous Than To Leap A Chasm In Two Jumps.

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.

Winston [churchill] Is The Only Remaining Specimen Of A Real Tory.

One Cannot Cross An Abyss In Two Jumps.

[proportional Representation Is A] Device For Defeating Democracy, The Principle Of Which Was That The Majority Should Rule, And For Bringing Faddists Of All Kinds Into Parliament, And Establishing Groups And Disintegrating Parties.

Explain To Me Again The Difference Between Superstitious Beliefs Or Pagan Incantations, And Scientific Ones. Be Braver - You Cannot Cross A Chasm In Two Small Jumps.

The Bolshevists Would Blow Up The Fabric With High Explosive, With Horror. Others Would Pull Down With The Crowbars And With Cranks--especially With Cranks. . . . Sweating, Slums, The Sense Of Semi-slavery In Labour, Must Go. We Must Cultivate A Sense Of Manhood By Treating Men As Men.

Neville [chamberlain] Has A Retail Mind In A Wholesale Business.

[lloyd George] Said That Harding's Speech On American Naval Aspirations Made Him Feel That He Would Pawn His Shirt Rather Than Allow America To Dominate The Seas. If This Was To Be The Outcome Of The League Of Nations Propaganda, He Was Sorry For The World And In Particular For America.

Great Britain Would Spend Her Last Guinea To Keep A Navy Superior To That Of The United States Or Any Other Power.

You Can't Cross A Chasm In Two Small Jumps.

If You Want To Understand A Subject Promise To Speak On It.