The growth of the empire has left us no choice.

The regions which we have colonized or conquered since the accession of the House of Hanover contain a population exceeding twenty-fold that which the House of Stuart governed.

There are now more English soldiers on the other side of the tropic of Cancer in time of peace than Cromwell had under his command in time of war.

All the troops of Charles II.

would not have been sufficient to garrison the posts which we now occupy in the Mediterranean Sea alone.