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The day of small nations has passed away; the day of Empires has come.
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If when they make you this offer you reject it or treat it with scorn you may do an injury which will be irreparable, and, whatever you yourselves may feel in after life, be sure that your descendants will scorn and denounce the cowardly and selfish policy which you will have pursued.
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In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.
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Learn and think imperially.
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We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbours.
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If we fail, let us try again and again until we succeed.
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In great deeds something abides.
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I say that it is only by commercial union, reciprocal preference, that you can lay the foundations of the confederation of the Empire to which we all look forward as a brilliant possibility.
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We must either draw closer together or we shall drift apart.
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What about the working men? What about the class that depends upon having work in order to earn wages or subsistence at all? They cannot do without the work; and yet the work will go if it is not produced in this country. This is the state of things which I am protesting.