David Lloyd George Quote Explained: Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment

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

Chancellor of the Exchequer

· Wales

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

- David Lloyd George

Chancellor of the Exchequer

· Wales

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

- David Lloyd George

Chancellor of the Exchequer

· Wales

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

- David Lloyd George

Chancellor of the Exchequer

· Wales

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Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead.

- David Lloyd George

Chancellor of the Exchequer

· Wales

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

- David Lloyd George

Chancellor of the Exchequer

· Wales

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When they circumcised Herbert Samuel they threw away the wrong bit

- David Lloyd George

Chancellor of the Exchequer

· Wales

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One cannot cross an abyss in two jumps.

- David Lloyd George

Chancellor of the Exchequer

· Wales

Four specters haunt the poor – old age, accident, sickness and unemployment

Four specters haunt the poor – old age, accident, sickness and unemployment

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

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

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

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

Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead.

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

When they circumcised Herbert Samuel they threw away the wrong bit

One cannot cross an abyss in two jumps.

We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death. Explain

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death. Explain

The fear of old age disturbs us, yet we are not certain of becoming old. Explain

Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age.

What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease.

It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope.

Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can.

Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it.

Four specters haunt the poor – old age, accident, sickness and unemployment

Four specters haunt the poor – old age, accident, sickness and unemployment

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