“... I regard it as a cinch that a great nation will in due time be Rome. ... Where is Rome? Where is Britain in its heyday? They all pass and so our turn is bound to come some day.”
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(quote at 9:22 of 31:45)
(quote at 9:22 of 31:45)
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