Quotes by Rosebery, Lord

How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work >>

Quotations about Empire

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How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with men's honest blood and with a world of tears, welded by the best brains of centuries past; not without the taint and reproach incidental to all human work, but constructed on the whole with pure and splendid purpose. Human, and yet not wholly human -- for the most heedless and the most cynical must see the finger of the Divine.

Rosebery, Lord