Quote#Homeland
In order to save the forty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom…
Quote byCecil John Rhodes · 1853–1902
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Quoted in Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism..
English (original)
In order to save the forty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, our colonial statesmen must acquire new lands for settling the surplus population of this country, to provide new markets. ... The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question.
— Cecil John Rhodes
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