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The King isolates himself and becomes less and less accessible to our advice.

— Émile Banning

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All the King's Men' A search for the colonial ideas of some advisers and "accomplices" of Leopold II (1853-1892). (Hannes Vanhauwaert), Emile Banning (1836-1898): The Don Quichotte of the ‘liberal civilization’ in Congo, Emile Banning's Colonial Career. BANNING, E. Political and Diplomatic Memoirs, 308.

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You may want to, Sire, but then you will find someone other than me to carry out such a will.

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The desert reveals its secrets; the great mystery of interior Africa is revealed day by day.

Wherever this regime has been applied in one form or another, it has led to economic stagnation and decline and political revolt.

From a moral point of view, there is a way to whitewash negroes, and to this view Africa undoubtedly presents the largest field that can be cultivated.

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