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.


Speech given to the Imperial Institute on 11 November, 1895; quoted in "Mr. Chamberlain On The Australian Colonies", The Times (12 November, 1895), p. 6.

Joseph Chamberlain Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...