“Having read the histories of other countries, I saw that expansion was everything, and that the world's surface being limited, the great object of present humanity should be to take as much of the world as it possibly could.”

About Cecil Rhodes

Politician • British

Cecil John Rhodes was a British mining magnate, politician, and imperialist in Southern Africa. He founded the De Beers diamond company, which controlled a significant portion of the world's rough diamond production. As...