“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.”
About This Quote
Quoted in Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism….William Simpson; Martin Desmond Jones (2000). Europe, 1783-1914. p. 237. Routledge.
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