“We are offering Ireland not subjection but equality, not servitude but partnership.”

— David Lloyd George

Speech at Guildhall, London (9 November 1920), quoted in The Times (10 November 1920), p. 12
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Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1863–1945

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