"There is an abuse of the term when applied to politicians of intelligence and sober thought who are for the consolidation of the empire or for imperial policy. The Jingoes are mainly the habitués of the turf, the tap-room, and the low music halls, whose inspiration is beer, whose politics are swagger, and whose policy is insult to foreign nations."
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George Holyoake, about the coinage and meaning of the term "Jingoes". In Sixty Years of an Agitator’s Life (London, 1893), pp. 217-18.
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