Wherever it has had free play in the ancient world or in the modern, in the old hemisphere or the new, a thirst for empire, and a readiness for aggressive war, has always marked it. (Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury)

Wherever it has had free play in the ancient world or in the modern, in the old hemisphere or the new, a thirst for empire, and a readiness for aggressive war, has always marked it.

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

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