"The only serious enemy to the Empire, within or without, is that very Democracy which depends on the Empire for its proper comforts."
— British Empire

January 1, 1970

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Ruydard Kipling, Letters of Travel: 1892-1913. London : MacMillan and Co., 1920. Quoted in Phillip Mallett, Ruydard Kipling: A Literary Life Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2003 (p. 144).