Joseph Chamberlain Quotes


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


Citations

Chamberlain, Joseph. Speech at Birmingham, 13 Jan. 1906. Quoted in Peter T. Marsh, Joseph Chamberlain: Entrepreneur in Politics, Yale UP, 1994, p. 639.

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Joseph Chamberlain
Joseph Chamberlain
  • Born: July 8, 1836
  • Died: July 2, 1914
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Politician

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. He was father, by different marriages, of Austen Chamberlain and of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.