Joseph Chamberlain Quotes
There will be no fighting. We know that these fellows won’t fight.
He was wrong and the Boer War resulted
Joseph Chamberlain, 1836-1914, British MP (Liberal), Colonial Secretary, Mayor of Birmingham, Referring to the South African Boers, June 1899
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This slogan was used by the Know-Nothing Party because they would rather continue to accept slavery than plunge the nation into a civil war.
The Chancellor was referring to the United States George W. Bush proposal for war with Iraq.
At the beginning of his Presidency Roosevelt urged Congress to disarm. A few years later he was urging heavy expenditures for armaments and Congress was then reluctant.
Shlomo ben Yitzchak
After 15 years under House Arrest by the Military running the country, under great US and World pressure and sanctions she was released, and her party won in a landslide in the first Democratic election the country experienced in many decades. When she assumed power, it was expected that she would change everything that the military government had done, but she was very judicious and changed the substantive issues leaving many of the symbolic u=issues in place.
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.
