“A free religion and a free people in a free land.”

— David Lloyd George

Speech in Merthyr Tydfil (November 1890), quoted in Thomas Jones, Lloyd George (London: Oxford University Press, 1951), p. 11.
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Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1863–1945

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