"I contend that we are the finest race……" — Cecil Rhodes
"I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race...What an alteration there would be if they Africans were brought under Anglo-Saxon influence."
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Cecil Rhodes
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33 Quotes by Cecil Rhodes
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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…
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Africa is still lying ready for us, it is our duty to take it. It is our duty to seize…
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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…
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In order to save the forty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, our colonial statesmen…
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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,…
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I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit,…
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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,…
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Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the…
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