The more we increase in numbers, the more we starve and become poorer. ... Either our population will shrink, or our territory will expand.

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, A romantic associate of Leopold II. E.B. La Belgique doit être agrandie. Hoei, 1882, 16-17.