Austen Chamberlain Quotes
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The first thoughts of an Englishman on appointment to the office of Foreign Secretary must be that he speaks in the name, not of Great Britain only, but of the British Dominions beyond the seas, and that it is his imperative duty to preserve in word and act the diplomatic unity of the British Empire. Our interests are one. Our intercourse must be intimate and constant, and we must speak with one voice in the Councils of the world.
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We have a peculair interest because the true defence of our country, owing to scientific development, is now no longer the Channel.
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“Scratch me and you will find the Nonconformist.”
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The danger which threatens us comes from Labour...Those who think that the Conservative or Unionist Party, standing as such and disavowing its Liberal allies, could return with a working majority are living in a fools paradise and, if they persist, may easily involve themselves and the country in dangers the outcome of which it is hard to predict.
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Gentlemen do not behave in such a way.
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No British Government ever will and ever can risk the bones of a British grenadier.
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I tell you I look forward with terror to her Germany making war upon us again in ten years.
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I wonder how many members can realise what the remilitarisation of the Rhineland means not merely to the excited politicians in Paris, but to the French peasant in his hovel, to the mother who feels that once again the...peril has come near and that once again her children will be mowed down by the scythe of war.