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Cecil Rhodes Biography

Cecil John Rhodes PC (5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902) was a British businessman, mining magnate and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896. An ardent believer in British imperialism, Rhodes and his British South Africa Company founded the southern African territory of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe and Zambia), which the company named after him in 1895. South Africa's Rhodes University is also named after him. Rhodes set up the provisions of the Rhodes Scholarship, which is funded by his estate, and put much effort towards his vision of a Cape to Cairo Railway through British territory.

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Wherever you turn your eye—except in science—an Oxford man is at the top of the tree.

Eye, Men, Oxford, Tree, Wherever

I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.

Brilliant, Come, Idea, Ideas, Right, Sticks

Africa is still lying ready for us, it is our duty to take it. It is our duty to seize every opportunity of acquiring more territory and we should keep this one idea steadily before our eyes: that more territory simply means more of the Anglo-Saxon race, more of the best, the most human, most honorable race the world possesses

Africa, Eye, Lying, Mean, Steadily, Take

To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life.

Born, Firsts, Lottery, Prize, Winning

Man begets, but land does not beget.

Beget, Doe, Land, Man, Men

I contend that we are the first race in the world, and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race. . . If there be a God, I think that what he would like me to do is paint as much of the map of Africa British Red as possible.

Africa, If There Is A God, Race, Think, Thinking, World

Ask any man what nationality he would prefer to be, and ninety nine out of a hundred will tell you that they would prefer to be Englishmen

Ask, Hundred, Men, Nine, Ninety Nine, Prefer

Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for making the Anglo Saxon race but one Empire? What a dream, but yet it is probable; it is possible.

Dream, Furtherance, Race, Recovery, Secret

The real fact is that I could no longer stand their eternal cold mutton.

Cold, Eternal, Funny, Humor, Longer, Real

So little done, so much to do.

Business, Done, Life

If there be a God, I think he would like me to paint Africa British-Red as possible.

Africa, God, If There Is A God, Red, Think, Thinking

I have too much work on my hands and I would not be a dutiful husband.

Dutiful, Hands, Husband, Too Much, Work

Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.

Englishmen, Firsts, Lottery, Prize, Remember, Won

In order to save the forty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, our colonial statesmen must acquire new lands for settling the surplus population of this country, to provide new markets. . . The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question.

Acquire, Country, Order, Question, War

We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.

Factories, Land, Raw Materials, Slave, Slave Labor, Surplus

Pure philanthropy is very well in its way but philanthropy plus five percent is a good deal better.

Percent, Philanthropy, Plus, Pure, Way

I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit, the better it is for the human race. Just fancy those parts that are at present inhabited by the most despicable specimens of human beings what an alteration there would be if they were brought under Anglo-Saxon influence, look again at the extra employment a new country added to our dominions gives.

Country, Fancy, Gives, Giving, Inhabited, Race

To think of these stars that you see overhead at night, these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex the planets if I could; I often think of that. It makes me sad to see them so clear and yet so far.

Clear, Night, Stars, Thinking

When people praise you, don't let it go to your head. When they criticize you, don't let it go to your heart.

Heart, Let, Let It Go, People, Praise

Having read the histories of other countries, I saw that expansion was everything, and that the world's surface being limited, the great object of present humanity should be to take as much of the world as it possibly could.

Country, Expansion, Humanity, Present, Take