Sir Harry Johnston

“What is now needed is the fuller survey of the whole of Africa, which should not be left to the chance of private enterprise.”

“My interest in Africa was, I believe, first aroused by a hatred of the slave trade.”

“Africa is the new world of the nineteenth century.”

“The desire to see and know was the mainspring of my life and work.”

“In an undeveloped country, don't make laws; make roads.”

“I am not a ‘man of letters.’ I am a man of action who has tried to express himself in letters.”

“The world is for the living.”