Robert Gascoyne-Cecil

"To give 'the suffrage' to a poor man is to give him as large a part in determining that legislation which is mainly concerned with property as the banker whose name is known on every Exchange in Europ…"

"The whole of our conduct towards the Yankees is too disgusting to think calmly of. ... If we had recognised the South ten years ago, America would have now been nicely divided into hostile states."

"...though it is England's right to enforce the law of Europe as between contending states, she has no claim, so long as her own interests are untouched, to interfere in the national affairs of any cou…"

"great and vital question has been raised in India. It is...the question whether Englishmen in that part of the empire shall or shall not be placed at the mercy of native judges. ... n dealing with for…"

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

"If they will abandon the habit of mutilating, murdering, robbing, and of preventing honest persons who are attached to England from earning their livelihood, they may be sure there will be no demand f…"

"It is very sad, but I'm afraid America is bound to forge ahead and nothing can restore the equality between us. If we had interfered in the Confederate War it was then possible for us to reduce the po…"

"It is patent on the face of history that the aggregates of men who form communities, like the aggregates of atoms that form living bodies, are subject to laws of progressive change – be it towards gro…"