Quote#Remembrance
The Dominions could not exist if it were not for the British Navy. We…
Quote byBilly Hughes · 1862–1952
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Speech to the Imperial Conference of 1921, quoted in Correlli Barnett, The Collapse of British Power (Eyre Methuen, 1972), p. 177.
English (original)
The Dominions could not exist if it were not for the British Navy. We must not forget this. We are a united Empire or we are nothing.
— Billy Hughes
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