Billy Hughes on British Empire
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“We are loyal to the Empire first and foremost because we are of the British race.”
“[W]e believe in the British Empire because it stands for liberty; because it has given us all that we have; because it has protected us all our lives; because it now protects us; because we know that without its protection in this war we should long ago have become a German colony; that our lot would have been that of Belgium.”