91 Quotes by David Lloyd George

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

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

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

It is always too late, or too little, or both. And that is the road to disaster.

There is nothing more dangerous than to leap a chasm in two jumps.

[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.

The League of Nations is the greatest humbug in history. They cannot even protect a little nation like Armenia. They do nothing but pass useless resolutions.

Great Britain would spend her last guinea to keep a navy superior to that of the United States or any other power.

[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.