Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1340
AUTHOR:
David Lloyd George (18631945)
QUOTATION:
No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it . My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under.
ATTRIBUTION:
Prime Minister DAVID LLOYD GEORGE, address, conference of trade union delegates, London, January 18, 1918, as reported by The Times (London), January 19, 1918, p. 8.