91 Quotes by David Lloyd George

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.

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

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.

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.

If you listen to the neverdo’s, it’s never done.

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.

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

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

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.