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Cecil Rhodes has 34 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life.
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Man begets, but land does not beget.
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To think of these stars that you see overhead at night, these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex…
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Africa is still lying ready for us, it is our duty to take it. It is our duty to seize every opportunity…
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Wherever you turn your eye—except in science—an Oxford man is at the top of the tree.
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I contend that we are the first race in the world, and that the more of the world we inhabit the better…
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In order to save the forty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, our colonial statesmen must acquire…
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The real fact is that I could no longer stand their eternal cold mutton.
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I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you…
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I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit, the better…
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Having read the histories of other countries, I saw that expansion was everything, and that the world's surface being limited, the great…
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Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of…
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Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the…
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being…
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