Speech to the Canada Club, London (21 November 1927), quoted in Our Inheritance (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938), p. 141.
1927
Context: Your country is a country for men from the North, the hardy virile races. Quality before quantity any day. Build up with the best. What does it matter if it is a hundred years, or two hundred years, or more, before your country is full? Keep the stock you have, and the men and women you have, and see that the coming generations are in no way inferior to them.
“Have you not subdued the whole district, and could you not have taken a few hundred strong men as slaves to have carried all your superfluous stock and the small ivory, and put your one hundred guns in charge?”
Source: Five Years with the Congo Cannibals, Page 175 https://archive.org/details/fiveyearswithco00wardgoog/page/n188/mode/2up
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Tippu Tip 2
Swahili slave trader 1837–1905Related quotes
Interviewed by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=18090&title=kurt-vonnegut/ (13 September 2005)
Various interviews
“You might have deemed our long gun-deck
Two hundred feet of hell.”
The River Fight (published 1864). Compare: "War is hell", attributed to William Tecumseh Sherman; "This is the soldier brave enough to tell, The glory-dazzled world that 'war is hell'", Henry van Dyke, On the St. Gaudens Statue of Sherman.
“Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies. ”
Будьте осторожны, с теми, кого называете своими друзьями. Я бы предпочел четыре четверти, чем сто пенни.
In a letter dated 8th Eezidy (February 13, 1790) addressed to Budruz Zuman Khan. (Selected Letters of Tipoo Sultan by Kirkpatrick)., also in C. NANDAGOPAL MENON, TIPU'S OWN TESTIMONY, 1990. in Tipu Sultan: Villain or hero? : an anthology. (1993).
From Tipu Sultan's letters
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/ead01cae-4f03-11df-b8f4-00144feab49a.html#axzz35BKDKkBS
2010