"The question will be asked, "Should 500 men, ordinary men, chosen accidentally from among the unemployed, override the judgment...of millions of people who are engaged in the industry which makes the wealth of the country?""
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David Lloyd George, On the House of Lords, speech in Newcastle (9 October 1909), quoted in The Times (11 October 1909), p. 6
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