I am a believer in the fact that it is for the good of the world that the English-speaking race in all its branches should hold as much of the world's surface as possible. The spread of the little kingdom of Wessex into more than a country, more than an empire, into a race which has conquered half the earth and holds a quarter of it is perhaps the greatest fact in all of history.

Letter to F.C. Selous, Teddy Roosevelt, 1900

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 contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race.

Confession of Faith, Cecil Rhodes, 1877