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.

Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.

You are an Englishman, and have subsequently drawn the greatest prize in the lottery of life.

Man begets, but land does not beget.

Pure philanthropy is very well in its way but philanthropy plus five percent is a good deal better.

We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.

So little done, so much to do.

I contend that we are the first race in the world, and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race... If there be a God, I think that what he would like me to do is paint as much of the map of Africa British Red as possible...

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.

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.

If there be a God, I think he would like me to paint Africa British-Red as possible.