hatred, jealousy and the determination to destroy …by public villification… to manufacture an unnatural solitude.

https://mikemcclaughry.wordpress.com/the-reading-library/specific-persons/sir-robert-vansittart-the-hidden-ringleader-of-british-intelligence/

 

(Imperialism's nightmare. Or do unto others  before they do unto you.)

There is a destiny now possible to us —

One kingdom; but who is to be its king?
[of the habitable globe]

…Reign or Die.

…this is what she [England] must either do, or perish:
she must found colonies as fast and as far as she is able…seizing every piece of fruitful waste ground she can set her foot on
…teaching these her colonists that:

• their chief virtue is to be fidelity to their country
• their first aim is to be to advance the power of England by land and sea

The England who is to be mistress of half the earth…

– John Ruskin, appointed first Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford University, August 1869 by Henry Acland; inaugural speech: Imperial Duty given at Oxford Sheldonian Theatre on his 51st birthday. Published in his Lectures on Art (1894). – retrieved from Norton College records

 “The main objective of American foreign policy since 1900 has been the preservation of the British Empire.“
– Back Door to War by historian Charles Callan Tansill; Chicago University Press, 1952 p. 3