Read the excerpt from an informational document. Which quotation from the excerpt best supports the

thesis that imperialism was necessary for British

security?

I became more than ever convinced of the importance

of imperialism. My cherished idea is a solution for the

social problem ... we colonial statesmen must acquire

new lands to settle the surplus population, to provide

new markets for the goods produced by them in the

factories and mines. The Empire, as I have always

said, is a bread and butter question. If you want to

avoid civil war, you must become imperialists.

O "I became more than ever convinced of the

importance of imperialism."

"The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and

butter question."

O "My cherished idea is a solution for the social

problem.."

"If you want to avoid civil war, you must become

imperialists."

-Cecil Rhodes, 1895