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 Copy Share Image
We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbours. — Joseph Chamberlain Copy Share Image
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… — Joseph Chamberlain Copy Share
The day of small nations has passed away; the day of Empires has come. — Joseph Chamberlain Copy Share Image
[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… — Joseph Chamberlain Copy Share
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.… — Joseph Chamberlain Copy Share
“Libraries are a kind of communism which the least revolutionary among us may be proud to advocate.” — Joseph Chamberlain Copy Share Image
The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come. — Joseph Chamberlain Copy Share Image
