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

I have too much work on my hands and I would not be a dutiful husband.

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.

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.

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.

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

We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.