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…

- Joseph Chamberlain

[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 al…

- Joseph Chamberlain

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

- Joseph Chamberlain

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 ki…

- Joseph Chamberlain

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

- Joseph Chamberlain

On great fields something stays.

- Joseph Chamberlain

London is the clearing-house of the world.

- Joseph Chamberlain

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

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