Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
499
AUTHOR:
Cecil John Rhodes (1853–1902)
QUOTATION:
I also desire to encourage and foster an appreciation of the advantages which I implicitly believe will result from the union of the English-speaking peoples throughout the world and to encourage in the students from the United States of North America[,] who will benefit from the American Scholarships to be established for the reason above given at the University of Oxford under this my Will[,] an attachment to the country from which they have sprung but without I hope withdrawing them or their sympathies from the land of their adoption or birth.
ATTRIBUTION:
CECIL J. RHODES, The Last Will and Testament of Cecil John Rhodes, ed. W. T. Stead, pp. 24–29 (1902). The will was dated July 1, 1899.
