"[I]f our ancestors had cared for the rights of other people, the British empire would not have been made."
— British Empire

January 1, 1970

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Lord Salisbury's remarks to the Cabinet (8 March 1878), quoted in John Vincent (ed.), The Diaries of Edward Henry Stanley, Fifteenth Earl of Derby (1994), p. 523