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Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner

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“Churchill was 'very keen, able, and broad-minded' and a 'powerful backer', but warned that his weakness was being 'too apt to make up his mind without sufficient knowledge'.”
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner (1854–1925) first seen 1921 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a letter written to the High Commissioner of Palestine, Sir Herbert Samuel, on February 5, 1921, as Churchill was preparing to take over the Colonial Office on Milner's retirement. From Martin Gilbert's "Winston Chur…
“British influence... is not exercised to impose an uncongenial foreign system upon a reluctant people. It is a force making for the triumph of the simplest ideas of honesty, humanity, and justice, to the value of which Egyptians are just as much alive as anybody else.”
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner (1854–1925) first seen 1894 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: England in Egypt (1894 ed.), p. 407
“[I]f Egyptian prosperity is a British interest, so is Egyptian independence. We have no desire to possess ourselves of Egypt, but we have every reason to prevent any rival power from so possessing itself. And there is no sure, no creditable manner of providing permanently against such a contingency, except to build up a system of Government so stable as to leave no excuse for future foreign intervention.”
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner (1854–1925) first seen 1894 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: England in Egypt (1894 ed.), p. 436
“I have a strong hope and conviction that, with moderation and good sense, and a policy of firmness, patience and good temper, these difficulties may yet be satisfactorily, if not immediately settled.”
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner (1854–1925) first seen 1897 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Milner, to the people of Kimberley, upon his arrival in South Africa on May 5, 1897, John Evelyn Wrench, cited in Martin Meredith, Alfred Lord Milner (1958), p. 167
“There is only one possible settlement – war! It has got to come ... The difficulty is in the occasion and not the job itself, that is very easily done and I think nothing of the bogies and difficulties of settling South Africa afterwards. You will find a very different tone and temper when the center of unrest is dealt with.”
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner (1854–1925) said by 1925 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Milner as recorded by Percy FitzPatrick, cited in Martin Meredith, Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa (2008), p. 374
“If, ten years hence, there are three men of British race to two of Dutch, the country [i.e. South Africa] will be safe and prosperous.”
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner (1854–1925) first seen 1900 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Milner on 27 December 1900, in private correspondence with Major Hanbury-Williams, as quoted by C. Headlam in The Milner Papers: South Africa (1933), p. 242
“...the impracticability of governing natives, who, at best, are children, needing and appreciating just paternal government, on the same principles as apply to the government of full-grown men.”
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner (1854–1925) first seen 1901 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Milner on 6 December 1901, on post-war government in South Africa, in correspondence with Joseph Chamberlain, as quoted by C. Headlam in The Milner Papers: South Africa (1933), p. 312
“If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and to damn the consequences.”
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner (1854–1925) first seen 1909 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Milner, in a speech given in Glasgow on November 26, 1909, on Lloyd George's "People's Budget", presented to Parliament, Lord Alfred Milner, cited in The Nation and the Empire (1913), pp. 400-401
“I feel more sure that the end is nearing than I do what kind of end it will be.”
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner (1854–1925) said by 1925 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Milner commenting to Arthur Glazebrook of Canada, about the United States' late entry in the war, cited in J. Lee Thompson's book Forgotten Patriot (2007), p. 338
“My own disposition is against being in the government unless I am part of the Supreme Direction.”
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner (1854–1925) first seen 1916 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lord Milner, in a letter to his future wife, Violet Cecil, on 8 December 1916, the same day he received a letter from Prime Minister Lloyd George asking him to be a member of his war cabinet. From John Marlowe, "Milner,…
“The prospects for peace were, "even blacker than a year ago".”
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner (1854–1925) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted on March 23, 1919, one year after Lloyd George called and asked him to go to France to find out the position of the British Army after the German surprise attack. From Forgotten Patriot, 2007, Rosemont, p. 359
“Instead of it (World War I) being a war to end wars - it (the Paris Peace Conference) is a Peace to end Peace.”
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner (1854–1925) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A remark to his private secretary, Lord Sandon, in May 1919. From Terence H. O'Brien, Milner, Viscount Milner of St James and Cape Town 1954-1925 (1979) p. 335.