Joseph Chamberlain Quotes

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

  Joseph Chamberlain

  Intentar, Triunfar, Fracasar

  Joseph Chamberlain (1885). “Speeches of the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, M. P.: With a Sketch of His Life”

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• 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.

  Joseph Chamberlain

  Sea, Age, Torches

  Joseph Chamberlain (1897). “Foreign & Colonial Speeches”, London ; New York : Routledge

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

  Joseph Chamberlain

  Empires, Passed Away, Nations

  Speech at Birmingham, 12 May 1904, in 'The Times' 13 May 1904

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• 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.

  Joseph Chamberlain

  Believe, Race, Two

  Joseph Chamberlain (1897). “Foreign & Colonial Speeches”, London ; New York : Routledge

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• La [legislación social] elevó el coste de producción; y qué puede ser más ilógico que elevar el coste de producción en el país y luego permitir que los productos de otros países que no están rodeados de ninguna legislación similar, que están libres de cualquier coste y gasto similar entren libremente en nuestro país en competencia con nuestros propios productos... Si estos productos extranjeros entran más baratos, una de dos cosas debe seguir... o bien aceptarás salarios más bajos o perderás tu trabajo.

  Joseph Chamberlain

  Country, Two, Competition

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• 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

  Sheep, Iron, Long

  Speech in Greenock (7 October 1903), quoted in "Joseph Chamberlain and the Tariff Reform Campaign" by Julian Amery, London: Macmillan, (p. 471), 1969.

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• 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

  Years, House, Abuse

  Speech at Birmingham, 4th August 1884, quoted in "The House of Lords: A handbook for Liberal speakers, writers and workers" by Liberal Publication Department, (p. 96), 1910.

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

  Joseph Chamberlain

  Use, Next, Fortnight

  In letter from A. J. Balfour to 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, 24 March 1886, in A. J. Balfour 'Chapters of Autobiography' (1930) ch. 16

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• In great deeds something abides.

  Joseph Chamberlain

  Escrituras

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

  Joseph Chamberlain

  Courage, Downhearted, Happenings

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 142-44, speech at Southwick (Jan. 15, 1906), 1922.

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• 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

  Cities, House, World

  Speech at the Guildhall, 19 January 1904, in 'The Times' 20 January 1904

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• Learn and think imperially.

  Joseph Chamberlain

  Learning, Thinking

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• 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

  Class, Toil, Lord

  1883 Speech, 30 Mar.

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• En los grandes campos algo permanece.

  Joseph Chamberlain

  Campos

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• London is the clearing-house of the world.

  Joseph Chamberlain

  House, World, London

  Speech at the Guildhall, 19 January 1904, in 'The Times' 20 January 1904

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• Learn to think imperially.

  Joseph Chamberlain

  Pensar

  Speech at Guildhall, January 19, 1904.

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• Learn to think impartially.

  Joseph Chamberlain

  Thinking, Statesmanship

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