Joseph Chamberlain
Joseph Chamberlain
Joseph Chamberlainwas a British politician and statesman, who was first a radical Liberal then, after opposing Home Rule for Ireland, a Liberal Unionist, eventually serving as a leading imperialist in coalition with the Conservatives...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth8 July 1836
benefit full
I think they'd benefit more by getting a full day,
learning thinking
Learn and think imperially.
iron sheep long
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.
cities house world
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.
class toil lord
Lord Salisbury constitutes himself the spokesman of a class, of the class to which he himself belongs, who'toil not neither do they spin'.
fields
On great fields something stays.
empires passed-away small-nations
The day of small nations has passed away; the day of Empires has come.
house world london
London is the clearing-house of the world.
deeds
In great deeds something abides.