Speech in Glasgow (6 October 1903), quoted in The Times (7 October 1903), p. 4.
1900s
Context: What are our objects? They are two. In the first place, we all desire the maintenance and increase of the national strength and the prosperity of the United Kingdom... in the second place, our object is, or should be, the realization of the greatest ideal which has ever come to statesmen in any country or in any age— the creation of an Empire such as the world has never seen. (Cheers.) We have to cement the union of the States beyond the Seas. We have to consolidate the British race. We have to meet the clash of competition, commercial now. Sometimes in the past it has been otherwise; it may be again in the future. Whatever it be, whatever danger threatens, we have to meet it no longer as an isolated country. We have to meet it as fortified and strengthened and buttressed by all those of our kinsmen, all those powerful and continually rising States which speak our common tongue and pay allegiance to our common flag.
“We are loyal to the Empire first and foremost because we are of the British race.”
Billy Hughes (1862–1952) Australian politician, seventh prime minister of Australia
Speech during the 1917 federal election campaign (c. March 1917), quoted in Neville Kingsley Meaney, Australia and World Crisis, 1914-1923: Volume 2 (2009), p. 202
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) British businessman, politician, and statesman
Speech given to the Imperial Institute (11 November 1895), quoted in "Mr. Chamberlain On The Australian Colonies", The Times (12 November, 1895), p. 6.
1890s
Context: I venture to claim two qualifications for the great office which I hold, which to my mind, without making invidious distinctions, is one of the most important that can be held by any Englishman; and those qualifications are that in the first place I believe in the British Empire, and in the second place I believe in the British race. I believe that the British race is the greatest of the governing races that the world has ever seen.
Cecil Rhodes (1853–1902) British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa
[The Story of Africa, http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1624_story_of_africa/page26.shtml, BBC World Service, 2009-06-13]
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) British businessman, politician, and statesman
Speech given to the Imperial Institute (11 November 1895), quoted in "Mr. Chamberlain On The Australian Colonies", The Times (12 November 1895), p. 6
1890s
David Cameron (1966) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
2010s, 2015, Speech on (20 July 2015)
John Brunner The Shockwave Rider
Bk. 1, Ch. "The Number You Have Reached"
The Shockwave Rider (1975)
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
Speech in the House of Commons (3 April 1982) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104910 <br class="br">First term as Prime Minister
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner (1854–1925) British statesman and colonial administrator
Milner on 27 December 1900, in private correspondence with Major Hanbury-Williams, as quoted by C. Headlam in The Milner Papers: South Africa, 1933, Cassell, p. 242
José Hermano Saraiva (1919–2012) Historian, Jurist, Politician
Original: (pt) Isso fez do português este tipo que nós somos. Nós não temos raça nenhuma. Não se pode falar na raça portuguesa. Se houvesse uma raça, nós éramos uma anti-raça. Feita com gente vinda de toda a parte ao longo de milhões de anos.
Source: "História Essencial de Portugal", episode 1
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
As Home Secretary in a 1910 Departmental Paper. The original document is in the collection of Asquith's papers at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Also quoted in Clive Ponting, "Churchill" (Sinclair Stevenson 1994).
Early career years (1898–1929)
