David Lloyd George
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"David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor," was a British Liberal Party (UK)/Liberal politician and statesman.

As Chancellor of the Exchequer (1908–1915), Lloyd George was a key figure in the introduction of many reforms which laid the foundations of the modern welfare state. His most important role came as the highly energetic Prime Minister of the United Kingdom coalition government (1916–1922)/Wartime Coalition Government (1916–22), during and immediately after the World War I/First World War. He was a major player at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919/Paris Peace Conference of 1919 that reordered Europe after the defeat of Germany in the Great War. He arguably made a greater impact on British public life than any other 20th-century leader, thanks to his pre-war introduction of Britain's social welfare system, his leadership in winning the war, his post-war role in reshaping Europe and his partition of Ireland/partitioning Ireland (between the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland which remained part of the UK).

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You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

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

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.

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.

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

I don t actually believe that stones turn into fairies, but I did once meet someone who had seen a fairy and heard a knocker.

When I m old I shall give up writing the big stuff and shall wander round the park thinking of songs.

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

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.

When they circumcised him they threw away the wrong bit.

Verdi is my god and my other influences are Berlioz and Puccini, with a dash of Debussy in my orchestration.

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