91 Quotes by David Lloyd George

If the people really knew [the truth] the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know and can't know.

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

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

You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.

Anything can be achieved in small, deliberate steps. But there are times you need the courage to take a great leap; you can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.

When they circumcised Herbert Samuel they threw away the wrong bit.

A young man who isn’t a socialist hasn’t got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn’t got a head.

He is brilliant – to the top of his boots.

Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and who is punished for failure he is not responsible for by the starvation of his children – that torture is something that private enterprise ought to remedy for its own sake.