Quotes About Joseph Chamberlain

#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.

Joseph Chamberlain

#4. If, someday, Julian should be reborn, she wished him well.

L.J.Smith

#5. Learn and think imperially.

Joseph Chamberlain

#6. I don't believe in anti-heroes. Duke Wayne played a mean guy but never an anti-hero.

Joel McCrea

#7. What the four seasons of the year mean to the European, the one season of monsoon means to the Indian.

Khushwant Singh

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

Joseph Chamberlain

#9. You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.

Joseph Chamberlain

#10. Learn to think impartially.

Joseph Chamberlain

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

Joseph Chamberlain

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

Joseph Chamberlain

#13. Chronicling future appeasing Prime Minister Joseph Chamberlain's rise to Parliament from first-generation commercial interests rather than the aristocracy, the author diagnoses even then that he had no center outside himself.

Barbara W. Tuchman

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

Joseph Chamberlain

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

Joseph Chamberlain

#16. I do worry about young people in the business who have experienced a lot of success and are punted around doing those manic publicity trails, when you don't really know who you are yet.

Sally Hawkins

#17. Bush and Inhofe will go down in history with other leaders such as Herbert Hoover and Neville Chamberlain who were blind to their nation's gravest threats.

Joseph J. Romm

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

Joseph Chamberlain

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

Joseph Chamberlain

#20. Read proudly
put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall not make-believe I am charmed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Joseph Chamberlain

#22. I'll never stop writing. It's one occupation in which being crazy, even senile, might help.

Fritz Leiber

#23. 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