Frases de Alfred Milner

Alfred Milner fue un político y administrador colonial británico. Se hizo notorio por el Jardín de infantes de Milner, un grupo de hombres jóvenes de los que él fue el mentor y quienes en algunos casos se convirtieron en importantes figuras del Imperio británico y por su influencia clave en la historia de Sudáfrica, en la que llevó adelante una política guiada por el objetivo de mantener a toda costa la hegemonía británica. Wikipedia  

✵ 23. marzo 1854 – 13. mayo 1925
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Alfred Milner: Frases en inglés

“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 damn the consequences.”

Fuente: 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, Constable, 1913, pgs. 400-401

“I feel more sure that the end is nearing than I do what kind of end it will be.”

Milner commenting to Arthur Glazebrook of Canada, about the United States entering the war, cited in Forgotten Patriot, 2007, Rosemont Publishing, p. 338.

“Instead of it (World War I) having been a war to end wars - it (the Paris Peace Conference) is a Peace to end Peace.”

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, Constable, p. 335.

“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.”

Milner on 27 December 1900, in private correspondence with Major Hanbury-Williams, as quoted by C. Headlam in The Milner Papers: South Africa, 1933, Cassell, 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.”

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, Cassell, p. 312