“Labourers had diminished, game had tripled. The landlord was no more necessary to agriculture than a gold chain to a watch.”

—  David Lloyd George

Speech (late 1913), quoted in Thomas Jones, Lloyd George (London: Oxford University Press, 1951), p. 45.
Chancellor of the Exchequer

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