Quote#Politics & Power
The only serious enemy to the Empire, within or without, is that very…
Quote byRudyard Kipling · 1865–1936
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letters of Travel: 1892-1913. London : MacMillan and Co., 1920. Quoted in Phillip Mallett, Ruydard Kipling: A Literary Life Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2003 (p. 144)..
English (original)
The only serious enemy to the Empire, within or without, is that very Democracy which depends on the Empire for its proper comforts.
— Rudyard Kipling
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