23 Quotes by Joseph Chamberlain

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

London is the clearing-house of the world.

Learn to think imperially.

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

Learn and think imperially.

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

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.

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.

[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.