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The Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her Colonial trade against foreign competitors.

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I may be uninspiring but I'll be damned if I'm alien.

Wake up, England, you have been asleep too long!

After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months.

We have to create a better Britain, to bestow more care on the health and well-being of the people, and to ameliorate further the conditions of labour.

It has always been my dream that the two English-speaking nations should some day be united in a great cause, and to-day my dream is realized. Together we are fighting for the greatest cause for which peoples could fight. The Anglo-Saxon race must save civilization.

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