Alfred Milner cytaty

Alfred Milner, 1. wicehrabia Milner KG, GCB, GCMG , brytyjski arystokrata, polityk i administrator kolonialny pochodzenia niemieckiego, jedyny syn Charlesa Milnera i córki generała-majora Johna Readyego. Prominentny polityk Imperium brytyjskiego, wywarł wielki wpływ na Południową Afrykę. Wikipedia  

✵ 23. Marzec 1854 – 13. Maj 1925
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Alfred Milner cytaty

„To brytyjska rasa wybudowała Imperium i to właśnie niepodzielna rasa brytyjska może je sama umocnić.”

Źródło: ks. Adam Romejko, Rola arcybiskupa Desmonda Tutu w walce z apartheidem, str. 129 http://www.romejko.edu.pl/content/pdf/20_romejko_desmond_tutu.pdf

Alfred Milner: Cytaty po angielsku

“If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and damn the consequences.”

Źródło: Milner, in a speech given in Glasgow on November 26, 1909, on Lloyd George's "People's Budget", presented to Parliament, Lord Alfred Milner, cited in The Nation and The Empire, Constable, 1913, pgs. 400-401

“I feel more sure that the end is nearing than I do what kind of end it will be.”

Milner commenting to Arthur Glazebrook of Canada, about the United States entering the war, cited in Forgotten Patriot, 2007, Rosemont Publishing, p. 338.

“Instead of it (World War I) having been a war to end wars - it (the Paris Peace Conference) is a Peace to end Peace.”

A remark to his private secretary, Lord Sandon, in May 1919. From Terence H. O'Brien, Milner, Viscount Milner of St James and Cape Town 1954-1925, 1979, Constable, p. 335.

“If, ten years hence, there are three men of British race to two of Dutch, the country [i.e. South Africa] will be safe and prosperous.”

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

“...the impracticability of governing natives, who, at best, are children, needing and appreciating just paternal government, on the same principles as apply to the government of full-grown men.”

Milner on 6 December 1901, on post-war government in South Africa, in correspondence with Joseph Chamberlain, as quoted by C. Headlam in The Milner Papers: South Africa, 1933, Cassell, p. 312