The Real Fact Is That I Could

In Order To Save The 40,000,000 Inhabitants Of The United Kingdom From A Bloody Civil War, We Colonial Statesmen Must Acquire New Lands To Settle The Surplus Population, To Provide New Markets. [...] The Empire, As I Have Always Said, Is A Bread And Butter Question.

The Real Fact Is That I Could No Longer Stand Their Eternal Cold Mutton.

To Think Of These Stars That You See Overhead At Night, These Vast Worlds Which We Can Never Reach. I Would Annex The Planets If I Could; I Often Think Of That. It Makes Me Sad To See Them So Clear And Yet So Far.

Africa Is Still Lying Ready For Us It Is Our Duty To Take It. It Is Our Duty To Seize Every Opportunity Of Acquiring More Territory And We Should Keep This One Idea Steadily Before Our Eyes That More Territory Simply Means More Of The Anglo-saxon Race More Of The Best The Most Human, Most Honorable Race The World Possesses.

Ask Any Man What Nationality He Would Prefer To Be, And Ninety Nine Out Of A Hundred Will Tell You That They Would Prefer To Be Englishmen