“We are a Teutonic people. We hold steadily to our opinions.”

—  Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

Speech to the Conference of the National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Associations in Oxford (23 November 1887), quoted in The Times (24 November 1887), p. 6
1880s

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