Lost America Quotes by Cecil Rhodes

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• To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life.
• Man begets, but land does not beget.
• To think of these stars that you see overhead at night, these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex…
• Africa is still lying ready for us, it is our duty to take it. It is our duty to seize every opportunity…
• Wherever you turn your eye—except in science—an Oxford man is at the top of the tree.
• I contend that we are the first race in the world, and that the more of the world we inhabit the better…
• In order to save the forty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, our colonial statesmen must acquire…
• The real fact is that I could no longer stand their eternal cold mutton.
• I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you…
• I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit, the better…
• Having read the histories of other countries, I saw that expansion was everything, and that the world's surface being limited, the great…
• 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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