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“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.”

— Cecil Rhodes

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Title: Wikiquote: Cecil Rhodes
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Rhodes, Cecil. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Cecil Rhodes. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cecil_Rhodes

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