“The white sheet of repentance is a very poor substitute for a mainsail.”

— David Lloyd George

On the reunion of the Liberal Party; speech to the Oxford University New Reform Club (22 June 1923), quoted in John Campbell, Lloyd George: The Goat in the Wilderness, 1922–1931 (1977), p. 69
Leader of the National Liberal Party

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Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1863–1945

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