"[The British Empire is] the greatest secular agency for good now known to mankind."
— British Empire

January 1, 1970

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Lord Rosebery, speech at the unveiling of a bust of the late Canadian Prime Minister Sir John Macdonald at Westminster Abbey (16 November 1892), quoted in The Times (17 November 1892), p. 9