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David Lloyd George

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A fully equipped Duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and Dukes are just as great a terror, and they last longer.
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On the peers of the House of Lords, in a speech in Newcastle (9 October 1909), printed in the Manchester Guardian on October 11, 1909

 
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