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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

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London is the clearing-house of the world.

The day of small nations has passed away; the day of Empires has come.

I say that it is only by commercial union, reciprocal preference, that you can lay the foundations of the confederation of the Empire to which we all look forward as a brilliant possibility.

The weary Titan staggers under the too vast orb of its fate.

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

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