Joseph Chamberlain Quotes

#1. 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.

Joseph Chamberlain

#2. Learn to think imperially.

Joseph Chamberlain

#3. 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.

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#4. Learn and think imperially.

Joseph Chamberlain

#5. If we fail, let us try again and again until we succeed.

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#6. You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.

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#7. Learn to think impartially.

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#8. Libraries are a kind of communism which the least revolutionary among us may be proud to advocate.

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#9. In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.

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

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#11. London is the clearing-house of the world.

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

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#13. The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.

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#14. Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

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#15. 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.

Joseph Chamberlain