The fact alone that both, like Chatham before them, were great war ministers, links their names inseparably. Beyond that, they sha...red many qualities in common: unquenchable vitality, restless energy, personal magnetism, and an inspiring power of oratory. They were alike also in their defects: opportunism, total lack of consideration for others, and a degree of egotism that can only be termed infantile. Lloyd George, however, whom Lord Haldane once called "an illiterate with an unbalanced mind," lacked both the versatility and the intellectual power of Churchill. Where Sir Winston found relaxation in Macauley or Gibbon, Lloyd George in his prime amused himself with cheap detective fiction. The latter, cast in an inferior mold, lacked also the personal courage of his younger colleague and successor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Landlord is a gentleman ... who does not earn his wealth. He has a host of agents and clerks that receive for him. He does not... even take the trouble to spend his wealth. He has a host of people around him to do the actual spending. He never sees it until he comes to enjoy it. His sole function, his chief pride, is the stately consumption of wealth produced by others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Four spectres haunt the Poor--Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive h...unger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror--and they last longer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »