“When trade is slack, you paint your factory and get it ready for new business. That is what we ought to be doing.”

— David Lloyd George

Remarks to George Riddell as recorded in his diary (8 October 1921), quoted in Lord Riddell's Intimate Diary of the Peace Conference and After, 1918–1923 (1933), p. 328
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Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1863–1945

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