Cecil Rhodes
Cecil Rhodes
Cecil John Rhodes PC was a British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa, who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896. An ardent believer in British imperialism, Rhodes and his British South Africa Company founded the southern African territory of Rhodesia, which the company named after him in 1895. South Africa's Rhodes University is also named after him. Rhodes set up the provisions of the Rhodes Scholarship, which is funded by his estate,...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth5 July 1853
Wherever you turn your eye—except in science—an Oxford man is at the top of the tree.
Africa is still lying ready for us, it is our duty to take it. It is our duty to seize every opportunity of acquiring more territory and we should keep this one idea steadily before our eyes: that more territory simply means more of the Anglo-Saxon race, more of the best, the most human, most honorable race the world possesses
I have too much work on my hands and I would not be a dutiful husband.
Man begets, but land does not beget.
The real fact is that I could no longer stand their eternal cold mutton.
Pure philanthropy is very well in its way but philanthropy plus five percent is a good deal better.
I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.
To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life.
Having read the histories of other countries, I saw that expansion was everything, and that the world's surface being limited, the great object of present humanity should be to take as much of the world as it possibly could.
In order to save the forty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, our colonial statesmen must acquire new lands for settling the surplus population of this country, to provide new markets... The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question.
If there be a God, I think he would like me to paint Africa British-Red as possible.
To think of these stars that you see overhead at night, these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex the planets if I could; I often think of that. It makes me sad to see them so clear and yet so far.
So little done, so much to do..
Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for making the Anglo Saxon race but one Empire? What a dream, but yet it is probable; it is possible.