Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess Salisbury Quotes
...if our ancestors had cared for the rights of other people, the British empire would not have been made.
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 1830-1903, 3rd Marquess Salisbury, British Prime Minister (Liberal), British Prime Minister (Conservative), Remark to the Cabinet, March 8, 1878
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This quotation so impressed Thomas Jefferson that he wrote it in his Commonplace Book.
