Winston Churchill

“We have got all we want in territory, and our claim to be left in unmolested enjoyment of vast and splendid possessions, mainly acquired by violence, largely maintained by force, often seems less reasonable to others than to us.”

-- Winston Churchill

[Source: Kenneth Weisinger, “Distant Oil Rigs and Other Erections” in Stephen Dowden’s “A Companion to Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain” (1999)]