David Lloyd George Political Quotations

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

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

Neville [Chamberlain] has a retail mind in a wholesale business.

Wild men, screaming through the keyholes.

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

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

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

One day while Lloyd George was making a political speech before a big crowd, a heckler yelled, "Wait a minute, Mr. George. Isn't it true your grandfather used to peddle tinware around here in an oxcart hauled by a donkey?" Lloyd George replied, "I digress just a moment and thank the gentlemen for calling that to my attention. It is true, my dear old grandfather used to peddle tinware with an old cart and a donkey. As a matter of fact, after this meeting is over, if my friend will come with me, I will show him that old cart, but I never knew until this minute what became of the ass."

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