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Have you ever reflected with what equipment of rights the average citizen is born endowed in England? With the right of moving up and down the public roads till he drops from exhaustion. That is all. Literally and absolutely all.
By Walter Savage Landor
(English poet and essayist, 1775-1864)
A want of the necessaries of life, in peasants or artisans, when the seasons have been favorable, is a certain sign of defect in the constitution, or of criminality in the administration.
The True Imperialism
By William Watson
(English poet, conspicuous for his courage in opposing the Boer war; born 1858)
Here, while the tide of conquest rolls