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Austen Chamberlain Quotes

I tell you I look forward with terror to her [Germany] making war upon us again in ten years.

I tell you I look forward with terror to her [Germany] making war upon us again in ten years.

Austen Chamberlain
War, Years, Germany
"The Life and Letters of Sir Austen Chamberlain: Vol. II" by Sir Charles Petrie, Cassell, (p. 263), 1940.

Scratch me and you will find the Nonconformist.

Austen Chamberlain
Scratches, Nonconformist
"The Life and Letters of Sir Austen Chamberlain: Vol. II" by Sir Charles Petrie, Cassell, (p. 321), 1940.

The combination of the Liberal and Labour Parties is much stronger than the Liberal Party would be if there were no third Party in existence. Many men who would in that case have voted for us voted on this occasion as the Labour Party told them i.e. for the Liberals. The Labour Party has "come to stay"...the existence of the third Party deprives us of the full benefits of the 'swing of the pendulum', introduces a new element into politics and confronts us with a new difficulty.

Austen Chamberlain
Party, Men, Swings
"The Crisis of Conservatism" by E. H. H. Green, London: Routledge, (p. 141), 1996.

[I believe in] the throne...parliamentary institutions...private enterprise and individual opinion against the socialization of the state...equity in the distribution of public burdens and strict maintenance of public faith with the creditors of the state [and] a fresh guarantee of peace by an alliance with France and...Belgium for the defence of our common interests against unprovoked attack.

Austen Chamberlain
Believe, Thrones, Maintenance
"The Impact of Labour, 1920-1924: The Beginnings of Modern British Politics" by Maurice Cowling, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (p. 147), 1971.

No British Government ever will and ever can risk the bones of a British grenadier.

Austen Chamberlain
Government, Risk, Bones
On the Polish Corridor in a letter to Sir Eyre Crowe, February 16, 1925.

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.

Austen Chamberlain
Country, Party, Thinking
"The Impact of Labour, 1920-1924: The Beginnings of Modern British Politics" by Maurice Cowling, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (p. 181), 1971.

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