Quote#Wisdom
Britain is Liberal; Britain is not Tory; Britain is not Socialist;…
Quote byDavid Lloyd George · 1863–1945
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Commons, Speech in the Usher Hall, Edinburgh (20 December 1924), quoted in The Times (22 December 1924), p. 12.
English (original)
Britain is Liberal; Britain is not Tory; Britain is not Socialist; Britain is not standstill; Britain is not revolutionary; Britain is sanely progressive. It means to go on, but not to go over. Therefore the temper of Britain is Liberal.
— David Lloyd George
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