[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.
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
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
[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…
The day of small nations has passed away; the day of Empires has come. - Joseph Chamberlain
The day of small nations has passed away; the day of Empires has come.
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
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…
On great fields something stays. - Joseph Chamberlain
On great fields something stays.
We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbours. - Joseph Chamberlain
We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbours.
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
Lord Salisbury constitutes himself the spokesman of a class, of the class to which he himself belongs, who'toil not neither do they spin'.
London is the clearing-house of the world. - Joseph Chamberlain
London is the clearing-house of the 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. - 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.
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