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.
years house abuse
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.
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.