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Edmond van Eetvelde Quotes

1852–1925 Belgium

Stanislas Marie Léon Edmond van Eetvelde (Postel, April 21, 1852 - Brussels, December 8, 1925) became one of the closest associates of the Belgian King Leopold II of Belgium, in his capacity as head of the Congo Free State.

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By blowing up the isolated facts, the British sought to cover up their territorial greed under the guise of philanthropy.

In ten years or so, when rubber starts to decline, it will be agriculture that will have to ensure our public income and our trade.

Personally, I have no other ambition than to devote to the service of the King all the goodwill and effort of which I will still be capable. I know it's a small thing.

I want to show those who are going to peddle that I am the man of all jobs, that at least I am not, just to keep my place. And I hold it all the more so as I can put up with the current boycott, a few months, but that I could not bend my life to it forever.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Edmond van Eetvelde (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.