Quote#Politics & Power
England would not have managed the Congo better than King Leopold has…
Quote byHenry Morton Stanley · 1841–1904
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor to Leopold II..
English (original)
England would not have managed the Congo better than King Leopold has done if she had been mistress of it, as she might have become in 1877.
— Henry Morton Stanley
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