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Great Britain would spend her last guinea to keep a navy superior to…

Quote byDavid Lloyd George · 1863–1945

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Prime Minister, Quoted in Colonel Edward House's diary entry (4 November 1918), quoted in Charles Seymour (ed.), The Intimate Papers of Colonel House. Volume IV (1928), p. 180.

English (original)

Great Britain would spend her last guinea to keep a navy superior to that of the United States or any other power.

— David Lloyd George

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