David Lloyd George Quotes

On your willingness to contribute part of your life to this country…will depend the answer whether a free society can compete.

If you cannot commit several hours per week to maintain the liberty that others afforded you, then you, by your inaction and silent voice, abet those who seek to destroy it.

Voting is the expression of our commitment to ourselves, one another, this country and this world.

My main ambition is to be of use to my country and my people.

I will protect democracy with my life.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it.

We have a great nation to help govern. We who are citizens of this great republic are favored children, yet we are all the time complaining; but that is one of the inalienable privileges of an American to complain about his neighbor and government-always crying for a change. But, with all of its faults, this is the best government for man on the face of the earth

Liberty was realized when the citizens were ... willing to sacrifice their private interests for the sake of the community

Each generation in this country gets the responsibility of being the ambassadors for this American democracy that our parents and grandparents fought, bled, and died for.

People need to realize that people have died for your vote.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.

The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.

A people may prefer a free government, but if, from indolence, or carelessness, or cowardice, or want of public spirit, they are unequal to the exertions necessary for preserving it. They are more or less unfit for liberty; and although it may be for their good to have had it even for a short time, they are unlikely long to enjoy it

We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

With almost no time to decide, they [your loved ones] gave the entire country an incalculable gift. They saved the capitol from attack. They saved God knows how many lives. They saved the terrorists from claiming the symbolic victory of smashing the center of American government. And they did it as citizens. They allowed us to survive as a country that could fight terror and still maintain liberty and still welcome people from all over the world from every religion and race and culture as long as they shared our values, because ­ordinary people given no time at all to decide did the right thing.

That's why I stand here tonight. Because for two hundred and thirty two years, at each moment when that promise was in jeopardy, ordinary men and women - students and soldiers, farmers and teachers, nurses and janitors - found the courage to keep it alive.

Even if I were knocked down by one gunshot it wouldn't affect our democracy and I wasn't knocked down and I have great confidence in our democracy and in Taiwan and in the people of Taiwan.

Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood.

Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.

I come from election, I come from the people. I owe gratitude to our people. I do everything for the good of the country and the people.

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.