Wherever you turn your eye—except in science—an Oxford man is at the top of the tree.

I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.

The real fact is that I could no longer stand their eternal cold mutton.

If there be a God, I think he would like me to paint Africa British-Red as possible.

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.

Having read the histories of other countries, I saw that expansion was everything, and that the world's surface being limited, the great object of present humanity should be to take as much of the world as it possibly 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.