Fontainebleau-Memorandum zum Versailler Vertrag, 25. März 1919. Geschichte und Geschehen 2, Verlag Ernst Klett, 2. Auflage, S.445
"You may strip Germany of her colonies, reduce her armaments to a mere police force and her navy to that of a fifth rate power; all the same in the end if she feels that she has been unjustly treated in the peace of 1919 she will find means of exacting retribution from her conquerors." - The "Fontainebleau Memorandum" of Mr. Lloyd George (dated March 25, 1919), tmh.floonet.net http://tmh.floonet.net/articles/fontainebleaumemo.html
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„Ich weiss, was man zum Kriegführen braucht! Glauben Sie mir, Deutschland ist nicht dazu imstande“
1934, zum zwanzigsten Jahrestag des Kriegsausbruchs 1914. Zitiert bei Leopold Schwarzschild: Das Neue Tage-Buch, 1934 S. 749. http://books.google.de/books?id=4EwHAQAAIAAJ&q=%22dazu+imstande%22
"Believe me, Germany is unable to wage war." - Zitiert bei Leopold Schwarzschild: World in Trance. London Hamish Hamilton 1942. p. 238. http://books.google.de/books?id=3jugAAAAMAAJ&q=%22is+unable%22
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Nach seinem Besuch in Berchtesgaden bei Adolf Hitler am 4. September 1936. Zitiert bei Hellmut Diwald: Deutschland einig Vaterland - Geschichte unserer Gegenwart. Books on Demand 2006. S. 45. Google Books
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“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
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
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
Speech in the Plait Hall, Luton (12 October 1904), quoted in The Times (13 October 1904), p. 9
Early political career
“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
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
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
Speech at the Guildhall, London (9 November 1920), quoted in The Times (10 November 1920), p. 8
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
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
Prime Minister
Quelle: 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)
Prime Minister
Quelle: 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)
Prime Minister
Quelle: 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)
