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Hansard, col. 2463 quoted in Times (London, Nov. 25, 1918)quoted in Times (London, Oct. 11, 1909)Quoted in Times (London, Sept. 20, 1914)

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Four spectres haunt the Poor—Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.

David Lloyd George

David Lloyd George (1863–1945), Welsh Liberal politician, prime minister. Speech, January 1, 1910, Reading, England.

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