Top 50 David Lloyd George Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— David Lloyd George

2. “The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.”

— David Lloyd George

3. “Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.”

— David Lloyd George

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

— David Lloyd George

5. “It is either Christ or chaos.”

— David Lloyd George

6. “The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.”

— David Lloyd George

7. “Hitler is a prodigious genius.”

— David Lloyd George

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

— David Lloyd George

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

— David Lloyd George

10. “Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue.”

— David Lloyd George

11. “Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.”

— David Lloyd George

12. “Sincerity is the surest road to confidence.”

— David Lloyd George

13. “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.”

— David Lloyd George

14. “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.”

— David Lloyd George

15. “When they circumcised Herbert Samuel they threw away the wrong bit.”

— David Lloyd George

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

— David Lloyd George

17. “Golf is the only game where the worst player gets the best of it. He obtains more out of it as regards both exercise and enjoyment, for the good player gets worried over the slightest mistake, whereas the poor player makes too many mistakes to worry about them.”

— David Lloyd George

18. “A body of 500 men chosen at random from amongst the unemployed.”

— David Lloyd George

19. “If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.”

— David Lloyd George

20. “The conventional heaven with its angels perpetually singing etc nearly drove me mad in my youth and made me an atheist for ten years. My opinion is that we shall be reincarnated.”

— David Lloyd George

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

— David Lloyd George

22. “Aristrocracy is like cheese. The older it is the higher it becomes.”

— David Lloyd George

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

— David Lloyd George

24. “The home front is always underrated by Generals in the field. And yet that is where the Great War was won and lost. The Russian, Bulgarian, Austrian and German home fronts fell to pieces before their armies collapsed.”

— David Lloyd George

25. “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.”

— David Lloyd George

26. “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.”

— David Lloyd George

27. “Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.”

— David Lloyd George

28. “He is brilliant – to the top of his boots.”

— David Lloyd George

29. “We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is drink.”

— David Lloyd George

30. “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.”

— David Lloyd George

31. “The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man who fires at it.”

— David Lloyd George

32. “Believe me, Germany is unable to wage war.”

— David Lloyd George

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

— David Lloyd George

34. “With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.”

— David Lloyd George

35. “Wild men, screaming through the keyholes.”

— David Lloyd George

36. “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.”

— David Lloyd George

37. “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.”

— David Lloyd George

38. “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.”

— David Lloyd George

39. “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.”

— David Lloyd George

40. “Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.”

— David Lloyd George

41. “What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.”

— David Lloyd George

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

— David Lloyd George

43. “Great men sometimes lose the reins and lose their heads. This time, let us hope that they will retain them and that when victory is assured they will sit down and reckon what the future is going to be for their countries as well as for other lands.”

— David Lloyd George

44. “Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people.”

— David Lloyd George

45. “You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience.”

— David Lloyd George

46. “Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.”

— David Lloyd George

47. “By thetest of our faith thehighest standard ofcivilization is the readiness to sacrifice for others.”

— David Lloyd George

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

— David Lloyd George

49. “The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers.”

— David Lloyd George

50. “Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.”

— David Lloyd George