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| 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. 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. He had sufficient conscience to bother him, but not sufficient
to keep him straight.I tell you, as one who has studied the whole situation, I don't think Hitler is a fool--he is not going to challenge the British Empire.It is a war not against men, but against women and children.
Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired. One of those revolving lighthouses which radiate momentary gleams of
light far out in to the surrounding gloom, and then suddenly relapse
into complete darkness. There were no intermediate stages.Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman
giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps. The war is an outrage perpetrated in the name of human freedomWe are fighting Germany, Austria and Drink, and as far as I can see, the
greatest of these deadly foes is Drink. 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. What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in. When they circumcised him they threw away the wrong bit. (on his Liberal Party colleague Sir Herbert Samuel)Who ordained that the few should have the land of Britain as a prerequisite; who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth? With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation. |
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