... if our ancestors had cared for the rights of other people, the British empire would not have been made.


Salisbury to the Cabinet (8 March 1878), from John Vincent (ed.), The Diaries of Edward Henry Stanley, Fifteenth Earl of Derby (London: The Royal Historical Society, 1994), p. 523.

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil Quotes

If our ancestors had cared for the rights of other people, the British empire would not have been made.

If our ancestors had cared for the rights of other people, the British empire would not have been made.

If our ancestors had cared for the rights of other people, the British empire would not have been made.

If our ancestors had cared for the rights of other people, the British empire would not have been made.