David Lloyd George Quotes

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

“I had expected to find Mr. Lloyd George a big man in every sense,” playfully remarked the chairperson when introducing the diplomat to a meeting, “but you can see for yourselves he is quite small in stature.” Lloyd George was not a bit abashed. “In North Wales from where I come,” he remarked, “we measure […]

No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it… My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under.

When they circumcised him they threw away the wrong bit. (on his Liberal Party colleague Sir Herbert Samuel)

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.

He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.

Don’t be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small steps.

Don’t be afraid to take a big step. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.

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