Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery Quote

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

Speech at the unveiling of a bust of the late Canadian Prime Minister Sir John Macdonald at Westminster Abbey (16 November 1892), reported in The Times (17 November 1892), p. 9. Leo McKinstry, Rosebery: Statesman in Turmoil (John Murray, 2006), p. 120.