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David Lloyd George, 1. hrabě z Dwyforu, byl britský státník a jediný premiér, který pocházel z Walesu. Byl také jediným předsedou vlády, pro něhož byla angličtina druhým jazykem.

✵ 17. leden 1863 – 26. březen 1945
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„Jsou rytířstvo této války, beze strachu a bez pohany.“

o Royal Air Force
Originál: (en) They are the knighthood of this War, without fear and without reproach.
Zdroj: [Sheffield, Gary, Gray, Peter, 2013, Changing War: The British Army, the Hundred Days Campaign and The Birth of the Royal Air Force, 1918, A&C Black, 193, angličtina]

„Zajímalo by mě, jestli lord Rothschild není diktátorem této země.“

1909
Zdroj: [Johnson, Paul, Dějiny židovského národa, rozmluvy, 1996, 311, 80-85336-31-6]

„Každá generace musí ukončit svou etapu pochodu na cestě k pokroku. Pokud se po absolvované cestě vrací zase zpět, zdvojnásobí tak dráhu, kterou budou muset urazit její děti.“

Zdroj: [Däniken, Erich von, Karel Bláha, Mýlil jsem se?: nové vzpomínky na budoucnost, Baronet, Praha, 1994, 263, 6, 80-85621-61-4, česky, http://ndk.cz/uuid/uuid:fd908ad0-e438-11e8-bc37-005056827e51]

Lloyd George: Citáty anglicky

“The white sheet of repentance is a very poor substitute for a mainsail.”

On the reunion of the Liberal Party; speech to the Oxford University New Reform Club (22 June 1923), quoted in John Campbell, Lloyd George: The Goat in the Wilderness, 1922–1931 (1977), p. 69
Leader of the National Liberal Party

“Nothing struck me so much in the war as the disappearance of the individual, of the human being... I saw what the State machine was, that it destroyed the individual, absorbed him to itself, and I said, "Give me Liberty."”

That is what a complete Socialistic State would mean, once you carried it out. That is why I am a Liberal and not a Socialist. Socialism would enslave labour. For its own benefit, its own advantage, Socialism would in the end enslave labour. Liberalism has made labour free, and it is its business to preserve the freedom of labour.
Speech to the Lancashire and Cheshire Federation of the League of Young Liberals in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester (28 April 1923), quoted in The Times (30 April 1923), p. 17
Leader of the National Liberal Party

“When you are out on a voyage, the tranquillity does not depend upon the ship, but upon the sea... It is not a policy, it is a yawn.”

On the Conservative leader Bonar Law's election slogan, "Tranquillity"; speech in the Stoll Picture Theatre, Kingsway (4 November 1922), quoted in John Campbell, Lloyd George: The Goat in the Wilderness, 1922–1931 (1977), p. 34
Leader of the National Liberal Party

“All taxation must be a tax upon industry.”

Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1930/apr/16/ways-and-means#column_2939 in the House of Commons (16 April 1930)
Leader of the Liberal Party

“If it is right that the State should resume its authority over the land for the purposes of burying the dead, it is surely also right that it should exercise its ownership where it is necessary it should do so to feed the living.”

Speech in Killerton Park, near Exeter, opening the Liberal land campaign (17 September 1925), quoted in The Times (18 September 1925), p. 14
Leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Commons

“The question was whether the Liberal Party was going to be merely a political party which is "the Keeper of the Doctrines."”

Its sole business would be to see that no man should stray. It would become purely a political sect, strictly, sternly, severely, painfully orthodox, and painfully select. If that was to be its rôle it would dwindle from generation to generation and decade to decade, until it would only have representation amongst the more tenacious races, to one of which he belonged.
Speech in Oxford Town Hall (6 August 1924), quoted in The Times (7 August 1924), p. 14
Leader of the National Liberal Party

“You do not declare war on rebels.”

On the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence; minute-sheet on Ireland (30 April 1920), quoted in D. G. Boyce, 'How to Settle the Irish Question: Lloyd George and Ireland 1916–21', in A. J. P. Taylor (ed.), Lloyd George: Twelve Essays (1971), p. 149
Prime Minister

“If I am to die, I would rather die fighting on the left.”

Remark to Herbert Samuel, explaining his opposition to Liberal politicians joining the National Government (5 October 1931), quoted in John Campbell, Lloyd George: The Goat in the Wilderness, 1922–1931 (1977), p. 301
Leader of the Independent Liberals

“We ought not to stint anything that is necessary in order to crush the rebellion.”

Letter to Bonar Law (10 May 1920), quoted in D. G. Boyce, 'How to Settle the Irish Question: Lloyd George and Ireland 1916–21', in A. J. P. Taylor (ed.), Lloyd George: Twelve Essays (1971), pp. 150-151
Prime Minister

“What we stint in materials we squander in lives... What you spare in money you spill in blood.”

Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1915/dec/20/statement-by-mr-lloyd-george#column_97 in the House of Commons (20 December 1915)
Minister of Munitions

“What was the use of talking about freedom if they had millions of people tethered to slums?”

Speech to the Oxford University Liberal Club at the Oxford Union (15 June 1926), quoted in The Times (16 June 1926), p. 18
Leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Commons

“No. A Liberal I was born and a Liberal I die. I will not join Labour.”

Remarks to Tom Clarke, the editor of the Daily News (14 October 1926), quoted in Tom Clarke, My Lloyd George Diary (1939), p. 23
Leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Commons

“I was walking peacefully along my path when suddenly I was assailed by an angry bull of excommunication.”

Speech in the Manchester Reform Club on Asquith's rebuke to Lloyd George for not attending the Liberal Shadow Cabinet meeting on 10 May (5 June 1926), quoted in The Times (7 June 1926), p. 8
Leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Commons

“If you scratch a Conservative, you find a Fascist.”

Speech to the London Young Liberal Federation in the National Liberal Club (5 January 1925), quoted in John Campbell, Lloyd George: The Goat in the Wilderness, 1922–1931 (1977), p. 109
Leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Commons

“Liberalism stands for the safe middle course.”

Speech at Crewe station during the general election campaign (23 November 1923), quoted in The Times (24 November 1923), p. 8
Leader of the National Liberal Party

“[T]he League of Nations will be of no value unless it has behind it the sanction of strong nations, prepared at a moment's notice to stop aggression. Otherwise the League of Nations will be a scrap of paper.”

Prime Minister
Zdroj: Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1919/jul/03/unprovoked-attack-upon-france#S5CV0117P0_19190703_HOC_333 in the House of Commons on the Treaty of Versailles (3 July 1919)

“Having regard to the use which Germany made of her great army, is there anything unjust in scattering that army, disarming it, making it incapable of repeating the injury which it has inflicted upon the world?”

Prime Minister
Zdroj: Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1919/jul/03/territorial-adjustments#S5CV0117P0_19190703_HOC_316 in the House of Commons on the Treaty of Versailles (3 July 1919)

“I ask anyone to point to any territorial change we made in respect to Germany in Europe which is in the least an injustice, judged by any principle of fairness.”

Prime Minister
Zdroj: Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1919/jul/03/territorial-adjustments#column_1215 in the House of Commons on the Treaty of Versailles (3 July 1919)

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