Read the excerpt from an informational document. Which quotation from the excerpt best supports the
thesis that imperialism was necessary for British
security?
I became more than ever convinced of the importance
of imperialism. My cherished idea is a solution for the
social problem ... we colonial statesmen must acquire
new lands to settle the surplus population, to provide
new markets for the goods produced by them in the
factories and mines. The Empire, as I have always
said, is a bread and butter question. If you want to
avoid civil war, you must become imperialists.
O "I became more than ever convinced of the
importance of imperialism."
"The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and
butter question."
O "My cherished idea is a solution for the social
problem.."
"If you want to avoid civil war, you must become
imperialists."
-Cecil Rhodes, 1895