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Joseph Chamberlain
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“For my part I do not feel any great horror at the idea...of the possible establishment of a Republic in this country. (Loud cheers.) I am quite certain that sooner or later it will come. (Renewed cheers and ‘Bravo!’) But...there is really not any great practical difference between a free constitutional monarchy such as ours and a free republic.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1836 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Birmingham Town Hall at a meeting of sympathy with the French Third Republic (12 September 1870), quoted in J. L. Garvin, The Life of Joseph Chamberlain, Volume One: 1836–1885 (1932), p. 152
“Despite the perpetual adulation of ourselves which is always going on, and the constant recitals of our prosperity and of the progress we are making in science and general culture, we are compelled occasionally to turn aside from the contemplation of our virtues and intelligence and wealth, to recognise the fact that we have in our midst a vast population more ignorant than the barbarians whom we affect to despise, more brutal than the savages whom we profess to convert, more miserable than the most wretched in other countries to whom we attempt from time to time to carry succour and relief.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1874 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ‘The Next Page of the Liberal Programme’, The Fortnightly Review, No. XCIV, New Series (1 October 1874), quoted in John Morley (ed.), The Fortnightly Review, Vol. XVI, New Series (1 July – 1 December 1874), p. 414
“I say to Ireland what the Liberals or the Republicans of the North said to the Southern States of America—The union must be preserved. You cannot and shall not destroy it. Within these limits there is nothing which you may not ask and hope to obtain—equal laws, equal justice, equal opportunities, equal prosperity.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1881 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the National Liberal Federation in Liverpool (25 October 1881), quoted in The Times (26 October 1881), p. 11
“The Whigs as a party are played out, and the next great fight will be between the Tory democrats and the democratic Radicals. It will never do for the latter to be out-bidden, so you must prepare for something very drastic.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1868 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Lady Dorothy Nevill (28 December 1882), quoted in Peter Fraser, Joseph Chamberlain: Radicalism and Empire, 1868–1914 (1967), p. 44
“Putting aside personal compliments what are the facts? A saving of 7 per thousand in the death-rate—2,800 lives per annum in the town. And as 5 people are ill for everyone who dies there must be a diminution of 14,000 cases of sickness, with all the loss of money, pain and grief they involve. Unless I can secure for the nation results similar to these which have followed the adoption of my policy in Birmingham it will have been a sorry exchange to give up the Town Council for the Cabinet.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1836 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to John Morley (23 January 1883), quoted in J. L. Garvin, The Life of Joseph Chamberlain, Volume One: 1836–1885 (1932), p. 385
“Lord Salisbury constitutes himself the spokesman of a class—of the class to which he himself belongs—who toil not, neither do they spin—whose fortunes, as in his case, have originated in grants made long ago, for such services as courtiers render to kings—and have since grown and increased while they have slept, by the levy of an unearned share on all that other men have done by toil and labour to add to the general wealth and prosperity of the country of which they form a part.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1883 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Birmingham (30 March 1883), quoted in H. W. Lucy (ed.), Speeches of the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, M.P. (1885), p. 41
“Hitherto, the well-to-do have governed this country for their own interest; and I will do them this credit—they have achieved their object. Now I trust the time is approaching for those who work and have not. My aim in life is to make life pleasanter for this great majority; I do not care if it becomes in the process less pleasant for the well-to-do minority. Take America, for instance. Cultured persons complain that the society there is vulgar; less agreeable to the delicate tastes of delicately trained minds. But it is infinitely preferable to the ordinary worker.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1884 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remarks to Beatrice Webb as recorded in her diary (12 January 1884), quoted in Beatrice Webb, My Apprenticeship (1971), p. 141
“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.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1884 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Birmingham (4 August 1884), quoted in "The House of Lords: A handbook for Liberal speakers, writers and workers" (Liberal Publication Department, 1910), p. 96
“The goal towards which the advance will probably be made at an accelerated pace, is that in the direction of which the legislation of the last quarter of a century has been tending—the intervention, in other words, of the State on behalf of the weak against the strong, in the interests of labour against capital, of want and suffering against luxury and wealth.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1884 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ‘The Revolution of 1884’, The Fortnightly Review, No. CCXVII, New Series (1 January 1885), quoted in T. H. S. Escott (ed.), The Fortnightly Review, Vol. XXXVII, New Series (1 January – 1 June 1885), p. 9
“If we fail, let us try again and again until we succeed.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) said by 1914 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As a response to Prime Minister Gladstone's criticism of Chamberlain's "Radical Programme," from a Speech at Warrington, cited in "Great Issues in Western Civilization, Volume II" (Donald Kagan, 1992), pg. 419
“I hope we may be able sooner or later to federate, to bring together, all these great dependencies of the British Empire into one supreme and Imperial Parliament (cheers), so that they should be all units of one body, that one should feel what the others feel, that all should be equally responsible, that all should have a share in the welfare and sympathize with the welfare of every part. That is what I hope, but there is very little hope for it if you weaken the ties which now bind the central portion of the Empire together. (Cheers.)”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1886 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Rawtenstall (8 July 1886), quoted in The Times (9 July 1886), p. 6
“As I passed through England and the United States, and again when I crossed the boundary of the Dominion, there was one idea impressing itself upon my mind at every step, indelibly written upon the face of two vast countries, and that was the greatness and importance of the distinction reserved for the Anglo-Saxon race—(cheers)—that proud, persistent, self-asserting and resolute stock which no change of climate or condition can alter, and which is infallibly bound to be the predominant force in the future history and civilisation of the world. (Cheers.)”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1887 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the Toronto Board of Trade (30 December 1887), quoted in Willoughby Maycock, With Mr. Chamberlain in the United States and Canada, 1887–88 (1914), p. 104
“[W]e want to convince the country that there is a better chance of really popular reform from a Unionist Government than from the Parnell–Gladstone.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1886 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Lord Hartington (21 January 1889), quoted in M. C. Hurst, 'Joseph Chamberlain, the Conservatives and the Succession to John Bright, 1886–89', The Historical Journal, 1964, Vol. 7, No. 1 (1964), p. 91
“Be as Radical as you like, be a Home Ruler if you must, but be a little Jingo if you can.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1892 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Sir Charles Dilke (January 1892), quoted in Richard Jay, Joseph Chamberlain: A Political Study (1981), p. 186
“I believe that the people of this country have decided this matter in their minds, and have determined that they will take their full share in the disposition of these new lands and in the work of civilisation they have to carry out there. I think they are justified in that determination—justified by the spirit of the past, justified by that spirit which has shown that the spirit of travel and adventure and enterprise distinguishing the Anglo-Saxon race has made us peculiarly fit to carry out the work of colonisation.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1893 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in the House of Commons (20 March 1893)
“I and those who agree with me believe in the expansion of the Empire, and we are not ashamed to confess that we have that feeling, and we are not at all troubled by accusations of Jingoism.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1893 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in the House of Commons (20 March 1893)
“We have secured for Uganda the pax Britannica which has been so beneficial in India... What existed in Uganda at that time were anarchy and civil war of the worst kind. If we had not been there thousands and perhaps hundreds of thousands of people would have been cruelly massacred; and after the victory of one party or the other what remained of the minority would have been cruelly tortured to death.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1893 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in the House of Commons (20 March 1893)
“I say that this Bill has been changed in its most vital features, and yet it has always been found perfect by hon. Members behind the Treasury Bench. The Prime Minister [William Gladstone] calls "black," and they say, "it is good": the Prime Minister calls "white," and they say "it is better." It is always the voice of a god. Never since the time of Herod has there been such slavish adulation. [Cheers, cries of "Progress!" and "Judas!"]”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1893 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in the House of Commons against the Irish Home Rule Bill (27 July 1893)
“I am, and shall be in the future, proud to call myself a Unionist (cheers), and be satisfied with that title alone, believing that it is a wider and nobler title than that either of Conservative or Liberal, since it includes them both (hear, hear), and since it includes all men who are determined to maintain an undivided Empire, and who are ready to promote the welfare and the union, not of one class, but of all classes of the community. (Cheers.)”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1894 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the Edgbaston Conservative Club in Birmingham (30 January 1894), quoted in The Times (31 January 1894), p. 7
“[T]he electors are much more interested at the present time in social questions and the problems connected with the agitation of the Labour Party than they are with either the House of Lords or any other constitutional subject.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1868 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Memorandum (13 November 1894), quoted in Peter Fraser, Joseph Chamberlain: Radicalism and Empire, 1868–1914 (1967), p. 152
“I have taken office with two objects; to see whether something cannot be done to bring the self-governing Colonies and ourselves into closer relations, and to attempt the development of the resources of the Crown Colonies, especially to increase our trade with those Colonies.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1895 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter (July 1895), quoted in N. Murrell Marris, The Right Honourable Joseph Chamberlain: The Man and the Statesman (1900), p. 379
“I venture to claim two qualifications for the great office which I hold, which to my mind, without making invidious distinctions, is one of the most important that can be held by any Englishman; and those qualifications are that in the first place I believe in the British Empire, and in the second place I believe in the British race. I believe that the British race is the greatest of the governing races that the world has ever seen.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1895 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech given to the Imperial Institute (11 November 1895), quoted in The Times (12 November 1895), p. 6
“And in the time to come, the time that must come, when these colonies of ours have grown in stature, in population, and in strength, this league of kindred nations, this federation of Greater Britain, will not only provide for its own security, but will be a potent factor in maintaining the peace of the world. (Cheers.)”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1896 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in the Whitehall Rooms, Hotel Metropole (21 January 1896), quoted in The Times (22 January 1896), p. 10
“The establishment of commercial union throughout the Empire would not only be the first step, but the main step, the decisive step towards the realization of the most inspiring idea that has ever entered into the minds of British statesmen.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1896 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the Chambers of Commerce of the Empire (9 June 1896), quoted in The Times (10 June 1896), p. 4
“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 kinsmen across the seas; so that in every vicissitude of fortune the British Empire may present an unbroken front to all her foes, and may carry on even to distant ages the glorious traditions of the British flag.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1897 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech entitled 'The True Conception of Empire' to the Royal Colonial Institute (31 March, 1897).
“I say, speaking for the Government, that in so far as in us lies there shall be no second Majuba. Never again, with our consent, while we have the power, shall the Boers be able to erect in the heart of South Africa a citadel from whence proceed disaffection and race animosities. Never again shall they be able to endanger the paramountcy of Great Britain. Never again shall they be able to treat an Englishman as if he belonged to an inferior race.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1900 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in the House of Commons during the Boer War (5 February 1900)
“I believe that the men of Yorkshire will not forget the words of the Mayor of Mafeking that "A seat lost to the Unionist Government is a seat gained by the Boers.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1900 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to a correspondent in Pontefract during the general election campaign, quoted in The Times (1 October 1900), p. 9
“The days are for great Empires and not for little States. The question for this generation is whether we are to be numbered among the great Empires or the little States.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1902 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Birmingham (16 May 1902), quoted in The Times (17 May 1902), p. 12
“Justification of union is that a bundle is stronger than the sticks which compose it, but, if the whole strain is to be thrown upon one stick, there is very little advantage in any attempt to put them into a bundle.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1902 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the 1902 Colonial Conference (30 June 1902), quoted in Julian Amery, Joseph Chamberlain and the Tariff Reform Campaign (1969), p. 34
“The terms of peace at Vereeniging were the charter of the Boer nation. They had every right to call upon the British to fulfil them in spirit and letter. If, in any respect, they thought these terms had not been, or would not be, carried out in the future, let them bring complaints and they would be redressed.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1903 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reply to Jan Smuts (8 January 1903), quoted in The Times (12 January 1903), p. 3
“In the terms of peace it was promised that education in Dutch should be given to the children of parents who desired it. This promise would be kept.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1903 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reply to Jan Smuts (8 January 1903), quoted in The Times (12 January 1903), p. 3
“At present we go into negotiations with foreign countries empty-handed. We have nothing to give, and we have to take what they are good enough to leave for us. If we were able to bargain on equal terms, I believe that the duties now imposed on our produce would be generally reduced. There would be a competition among foreign nations for our markets which would bring us nearer to real free trade than we have ever been.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1903 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to a trade unionist (3 June 1903), quoted in The Times (8 June 1903), p. 8
“You are told by the opponents of all change that such a reform as I contemplate would involve this country in ruin, would bring starvation to the homes of the working people, and destroy our export trade. If these predictions have any foundation, how are we to account for the fact that the increase of exports, wages, and general prosperity during the last 20 years in the United States and Germany has been greater than in the United Kingdom, which is the only civilised country in the world to enjoy the blessings of unrestricted free import?”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1903 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to a trade unionist (3 June 1903), quoted in The Times (8 June 1903), p. 8
“[What] is the effect of payment for imports by interest on securities? Is it not the effect that such payment does not promote employment of labour, and that, therefore, although the wealth of the country so paid may not be less in aggregate, the national wealth will be worse in the sense that it will tend to cease being a manufacturing and producing nation and will become instead a nation of consumers, chiefly rich men and their dependents?”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1903 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to William Hewins (14 July 1903), quoted in Peter T. Marsh, Joseph Chamberlain: Entrepreneur in Politics (1994), p. 571
“[It was] better to keep the employment in this country even though the workmen (and everyone else) had to pay a little more for the articles manufactured at home than for those coming from abroad, where wages may be lower and the condition of employment more favourable to the manufacturer.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1903 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Memorandum to the Duke of Devonshire (15 July 1903), quoted in Peter T. Marsh, Joseph Chamberlain: Entrepreneur in Politics (1994), pp. 571-572
“When Mr. Cobden preached his doctrine he believed, as he had at that time considerable reason to suppose, that while foreign countries would supply us with our foods and raw materials we should remain the workshop of the world and should send them in exchange our manufactures. But that is exactly what we have not done. On the contrary...we are sending less and less of our manufactures to them, and they are sending more and more of their manufactures to us...Our existence as a nation depends upon our manufacturing capacity and production.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1903 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Glasgow (6 October 1903), quoted in The Times (7 October 1903), p. 4
“If you allow this state of things to go on, what will follow? If these foreign goods come in cheaper, one of two things must follow. Either you will have to give up the conditions you have gained, either you will have to abolish and repeal the fair-wages clause of our Factory Acts, and the compensation to workmen, and either you will have to take lower wages, or you will lose work. You cannot keep your work at this higher standard of living and pay if at the same time you allow foreigners at a lower standard and lower rate of pay to send their goods freely in competition with yours.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1903 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Greenock (7 October 1903), quoted in The Times (8 October 1903), p. 8
“What is the whole problem as it effects the working classes of this country? It is all contained in one word—employment. Cheap food, a higher standard of living, higher wages—all these things, important as they are, are contained in the word employment. If this policy will give you more employment, all the others would be added unto you. If you lose your employment, all the others put together will not compensate you for that loss.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1903 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Liverpool (27 October 1903), quoted in The Times (28 October 1903), p. 6
“It is absolutely impossible to reconcile free trade with trade unionism. You can have one or you can have the other, but you cannot have both; and I am glad to say that in saying that I have the support of a trade unionist with whom I have disagreed upon almost every other question, Mr. Keir Hardie... [I]t is not only the consumer you have got to consider. The producer is of still more importance; and to buy in the cheapest market is not the sole duty of man, and it is not in the best interest of the working classes.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1903 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Liverpool (27 October 1903), quoted in The Times (28 October 1903), p. 6
“What Washington did for the United States of America, when he made what is in itself a self-contained and self-sufficient empire of some 80 millions of souls, what Bismarck did for Germany when he united between 50 and 60 millions of people, that it is our business and duty to do for the British Empire.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1903 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Cardiff (20 November 1903), quoted in The Times (21 November 1903), p. 9
“While our investments abroad may provide a sufficient return to the capitalists...they tend directly to a transfer of employment from this country to our rivals & competitors.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1903 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to the editor of The Sun (27 November 1903), quoted in Peter T. Marsh, Joseph Chamberlain: Entrepreneur in Politics (1994), p. 589
“London is the clearing-house of the world.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1904 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at Guildhall, London, Jan. 19, 1904.
“Banking is not the creator of our prosperity, but is the creation of it. It is not the cause of our wealth, but is the consequence of our wealth; and if the industrial energy and development which has been going on for so many years in this country were to be hindered or relaxed, then finance, and all that finance means, will follow trade to the countries which are more successful than ourselves.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1904 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in the Guildhall, London (19 January 1904), quoted in The Times (20 January 1904), p. 10
“The day of small nations has passed away; the day of Empires has come.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1904 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at Birmingham, May 13, 1904.
“The free-traders were against all State interference of any kind; they were against the Factory Act, they were opposed to the laws to prevent fraud and adulteration, especially in the interests of the working classes, they were against trade unions, they were in favour of unlimited competition, they would buy everything in the cheapest market and especially labour... [W]e cannot logically and consistently attempt to defend labour against unfair competition without defending at the same time against unfair competition the product of that labour.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Birmingham (9 July 1906), quoted in The Times (10 July 1906), p. 11
“England without an Empire! Can you conceive it? England in that case would not be the England we love. (Cheers.) If the ties of sympathy...between ourselves and our children who are soon to become great nations across the seas—if these ties were weakened or destroyed, if we suffered their affection to die from want of food, if we allowed them to drift apart—then this England of ours would sink from the comparative position which she has enjoyed throughout the centuries...she would be a fifth-rate nation existing on the sufferance of her more powerful neighbours.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Birmingham (9 July 1906), quoted in The Times (10 July 1906), p. 11
“It is a question (of native labour) which has engaged my most careful attention in connection with West Africa and other Colonies. To listen to the right honourable gentleman, you would almost think that it would be a good thing for the native to be idle. I think it is a good thing for him to be industrious; and by every means in our power, we must teach him to work. No people ever have lived in the world's history. who would not work. In the interests of tbe natives all over Africa, we have to teach them to work.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1901 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Casement Report, Page 4 Mr. Chamberlain in the House of Commons, August 6, 1901.
“We are all of us taxed, and taxed heavily. Is that a system of forced labour? To say that because we put a tax on the native therefore he is reduced to a condition of servitude and of forced labour is, to my mind, absolutely ridiculous. It is perfectly fair to my mind that the native should contribute something towards the cost of administering the country.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1903 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Casement Report, Page 5 House of Commons, tbe 9th March, 1903.
“If that really is the last word of civilization, if we are to proceed on the assumption that the nearer the native or any human being comes to a pig the more desirable is his condition, of course I have nothing to say I must continue to believe that, at all events, the progress of the native in civilization will not be secured until he has been convinced of the necessity and the dignity of labour. Therefore, I think that anything we reasonably can do to induce the native to labour is a desirable thing, the existence of the tax is an inducement to him to work.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1903 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Casement Report, Page 5 House of Commons, the 24th March, 1903.
“[T]he party will not again be reunited till a new programme has been elaborated which shall satisfy the just expectations of the representatives of labour, as well as conciliate the Nonconformists who have been driven into rebellion. It is impossible to say with certainty what will be the exact form of this protest against the ever-recurring assumption that the time has come when statesmen may rest from their labours and parties be at peace, but it must include some or all of the following ideas which have been exercising a growing attraction for political thinkers, and which are summed up in the sentence which may perhaps form the motto of the new party—Free Church, Free Land, Free Schools, and Free Labour.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1873 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ‘The Liberal Party and Its Leaders’, The Fortnightly Review, No. LXXXI, New Series (1 September 1873), pp. 293–294