Joseph Chamberlain Quotes

United Kingdom, Statesman
July 8, 1836 – July, 2, 1914.

Joseph Chamberlain was a British statesman who was first a radical Liberal, then, after opposing home rule for Ireland, a Liberal Unionist, and eventually served as a leading imperialist in coalition with the Conservatives. He split both major British parties in the course of his career.

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

Joseph Chamberlain
- Day
- Nations
- Empires
If we fail, let us try again and again until we succeed.

Joseph Chamberlain
- Try
- Succeed
- Fail

If when they make you this offer you reject it or treat it with scorn you may do an injury which will be irreparable, and, whatever you yourselves may feel in after life, be sure that your descendants will scorn and denounce the cowardly and selfish policy which you will have pursued.

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

Joseph Chamberlain
What about the working men? What about the class that depends upon having work in order to earn wages or subsistence at all? They cannot do without the work; and yet the work will go if it is not produced in this country. This is the state of things which I am protesting.

Joseph Chamberlain
- Work
- Country
- Produced
In great deeds something abides.

Joseph Chamberlain
- Great
- Deeds
- Abides
In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.

Joseph Chamberlain
Learn and think imperially.

Joseph Chamberlain
- Think
- Learn
- Imperial

I say that it is only by commercial union, reciprocal preference, that you can lay the foundations of the confederation of the Empire to which we all look forward as a brilliant possibility.

Joseph Chamberlain
- Foundation
- Union
- Empire
We must either draw closer together or we shall drift apart.

Joseph Chamberlain
- Together
- Apart
- Closer