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. Just fancy those parts that are at present inhabited by the most despicable specimens of human beings what an alteration there would be if they were brought under Anglo-Saxon influence, look again at the extra employment a new country added to our dominions gives.
Cecil RhodesHaving 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.
Cecil RhodesWherever you turn your eyeโexcept in scienceโan Oxford man is at the top of the tree.
Cecil RhodesI 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.
Cecil RhodesIn 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.
Cecil Rhodes