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British Politician

Joseph Chamberlain was a prominent British politician known for his significant influence in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was a key figure in British fiscal and colonial policies.

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Famous Joseph Chamberlain Quotes

“We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbours.”

Courage Happenings Neighbour Downhearted

Author:Joseph Chamberlain

“Lord Salisbury constitutes himself the spokesman of a class, of the class to which he himself belongs, who'toil not neither do they spin'.”

Lord Class Toil

Author:Joseph Chamberlain

“Provided that the City of London remains, as it is at present, the clearing-house of the world, any other nation may be its workshop.”

World May House Nations Cities Remains London Workshops Clearing City Of London

Author:Joseph Chamberlain

“During the last 100 years, the House of Lords has never contributed one iota to popular liberties or popular freedom, or done anything to advance the common weal; but during that time it has protected every abuse and sheltered every privilege.”

Years Done Lasts House Common Liberty Lord Abuse Privilege Protected House Of Lords

Author:Joseph Chamberlain

“If we fail, let us try again and again until we succeed.”

Ifs Trying Failing Succeed Again And Again Try Again

Book:Speeches of the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, M. P.: With a Sketch of His Life

Source: Speeches of the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, M. P.: With a Sketch of His Life

“I venture to claim two qualifications for the great office which I hold, which to my mind, without making invidious distinctions, is one of the most important that can be held by any Englishman; and those qualifications are that in the first place I believe in the British Empire, and in the second place I believe in the British race. I believe that the British race is the greatest of the governing races that the world has ever seen.”

Source: Foreign & Colonial Speeches

“Let it be our endeavour, let it be our task, to keep alight the torch of imperial patriotism, to hold fast the affection and the confidence of our kinsmen across the seas; so that in every vicissitude of fortune the British Empire may present an unbroken front to all her foes, and may carry on even to distant ages the glorious traditions of the British flag.”

May Age Sea Fronts Tradition Tasks Fortune Affection British Glorious Empires Flags Foe Torches Endeavour British Empire Unbroken Hold Fast Vicissitudes

Book:Foreign & Colonial Speeches

Source: Foreign & Colonial Speeches

“Sugar is gone; silk has gone; iron is threatened; wool is threatened; cotton will go! How long are you going to stand it? At the present moment these industries...are like sheep in a field.”

Long Moments Gone Fields Industry Iron Present Moment Sugar Sheep Threatened Silk Cotton Wool

Author:Joseph Chamberlain

“[Social legislation] raised the cost of production; and what can be more illogical than to raise the cost of production in the country and then to allow the products of other countries which are not surrounded by any similar legislation, which are free from any similar cost and expenditure freely to enter our country in competition with our own goods...If these foreign goods come in cheaper, one of two things must follow...either you will take lower wages or you will lose your work.”

Ifs Two Country Social Loses Products Cost Raises Competition Raised Productions Our Country Two Things Goods Other Countries Legislation Wages Cheaper Expenditures Illogical

Author:Joseph Chamberlain

“Learn to think imperially.”

Thinking

Author:Joseph Chamberlain

“Learn and think imperially.”

Thinking Learning

Author:Joseph Chamberlain

“In great deeds something abides.”

Deeds

Author:Joseph Chamberlain

“London is the clearing-house of the world.”

World House London Clearing

Author:Joseph Chamberlain

“The day of small nations has passed away; the day of Empires has come.”

Nations Empires Passed Away Small Nations

Author:Joseph Chamberlain

“On great fields something stays.”

Fields

Author:Joseph Chamberlain

“In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.”

Use Next Fortnight

Author:Joseph Chamberlain

“Learn to think impartially.”

Thinking Statesmanship

Author:Joseph Chamberlain

About the Author

Born: July 8, 1836
Died: July 2, 1914
Known for: British Politician
Quotes: 17

Books & Sources

Foreign & Colonial SpeechesRelated source material

Speeches of the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, M. P.: With a Sketch of His LifeRelated source material

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