Quote#Homeland
I believe there is a new order coming for the people of this country.…
Quote byDavid Lloyd George · 1863–1945
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: President of the Board of Trade, Speech in Bangor, Wales (January 1906), quoted in Thomas Jones, Lloyd George (1951), p. 34.
English (original)
I believe there is a new order coming for the people of this country. It is a quiet but certain revolution.
— David Lloyd George
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