The term was popularized by Lord Goschen, First Lord of the Admiralty, during a speech at Lewes on 26 February 1896: "We have stood here alone in what is called isolation – our splendid isolation, as one of our colonial friends was good enough to call it."
Популяризован Джорджем Гошеном, в то время Первым Лордом Адмиралтейства, в его речи от 26 января 1896 года: «We have stood here alone in what is called isolation — our splendid isolation, as one of our colonial friends was good enough to call it».