Quotes by David Lloyd George

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

“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.”

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

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

“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 l...”

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

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

“We are muddled into war.”

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

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

“I will not say but that I eyed the assembly in a spirit similar to that in which William the Conqueror eyed England on his visit to Edward the Confessor, as the region of his future domain. Oh, van...”

“A free religion and a free people in a free land.”

“Why had Wales made sacrifices in the face of unexampled difficulties and intimidation from squires and agents? It was not to install one statesman in power. It was not to deprive one party of power...”

“[I believe in Oliver Cromwell] because he was a great fighting Dissenter. He was perhaps the first statesman to recognize that as soon as the Government became a democracy the Churches became direc...”

“Mr. Chamberlain is right in so far as he says that things are not well in this country. We cannot feed the hungry with statistics of national prosperity, or stop the pangs of famine by reciting to ...”

“As our fathers had freed our trade there was another work to accomplish. This was to free the land from the chains of feudalism, the schools from the dominion of the priest, and the people from the...”

“I believe there is a new order coming for the people of this country. It is a quiet but certain revolution.”

“[The House of Lords] is the right hon. Gentleman's poodle. It fetches and carries for him. It barks for him. It bites anybody that he sets it on to. And we are told that this is a great revising Ch...”

“Free Trade is a great pacificator. We have had many quarrels, many causes of quarrels, during the last fifty years, but we have not had a single war with any first-class Power. Free Trade is slowly...”

“Free Trade may be the alpha, but it is not the omega, of Liberal policy.”