In dealing with a race composed of cannibals for thousands of years, it is necessary to use methods which will best shape their idleness, and make them realize the sanctity of work.

I believe we must set up three children's colonies, the aim of these colonies is above all to furnish us with soldiers.

These expeditions respond to an extraordinarily civilizing Christian idea: to abolish slavery in Africa, to dispel the darkness that still reigns in part of the world, to get to know the resources that seem gigantic, in short, pouring out the treasures of civilization, that's it. purpose of this modern crusade worthy of our era.

The terms of the treaties Stanley has made with native chiefs do not satisfy me. There must at least be an added article to the effect that they delegate to us their sovereign rights, the treaties must be as brief as possible and in a couple of articles must grant us everything.

The Congo state is certainly not a business, if it gathers ivory on some of it's lands, that is only to lessen its deficits.

You should purchase as much land as you will be able to obtain without losing one minute from all the chiefs from the mouth of the Congo to Stanley falls, i will send you more people and raw materials, and perhaps Chinese couriers.

I will give them my Congo, but they have no right to know what i did there.

A People which is content with its homeland and which shreds at even the shadow of a conflict lacks the characteristics of a superior race.

There are no small countries, only small minds.