List of Neville Chamberlain Quotes

Though I Never Shout At Labour Members Or Insult Them, I Can Never Understand The Psychology Of Some Of Our Men Who Endeavoured To Reason With Them.

In The Event Of Any Action Which Clearly Threatened Polish Independence And Which The Polish Government Accordingly Considered It Vital To Resist With Their National Forces, His Majesty's Government Would Feel Themselves Bound At Once To Lend The Polish Government All Support In Their Power. They Have Given The Polish Government An Assurance To This Effect. I May Add That The French Government Have Authorized Me To Make It Plain That They Stand In The Same Position In This Matter.

We Would Fight Not For The Political Future Of A Distant City [danzig], Rather For Principles Whose Destruction Would Ruin The Possibility Of Peace And Security For The Peoples Of The Earth.

Thrift Is That Habit Of Character That Prompts One To Work For What He Gets, To Earn What Is Paid Him; To Invest A Part Of His Earnings; To Spend Wisely And Well; To Save, But Not Hoard.

Finland Must Not Be Allowed To Disappear Off The Map.

Whatever The Lengths To Which Others May Go, His Majesty's Government Will Never Resort To The Deliberate Attack On Women And Children And Other Civilians For Purposes Of Mere Terrorism.

Taxation Is Not A Method By Which The Community Corporately Provides Itself With Essential Services, But A Fund To Be Divided Between Different Interests With Political Claims Upon The State.

It Is Evil Things That We Will Be Fighting Against-brute Force, Bad Faith, Injustice, Oppression And Persecution-and Against Them I Am Certain That The Right Will Prevail.

Ever Since I Assumed My Present Office My Main Purpose Has Been To Work For The Pacification Of Europe, For The Removal Of Those Suspicions And Those Animosities Which Have So Long Poisoned The Air. The Path Which Leads To Appeasement Is Long And Bristles With Obstacles. The Question Of Czechoslovakia Is The Latest And Perhaps The Most Dangerous. Now That We Have Got Past It, I Feel That It May Be Possible To Make Further Progress Along The Road To Sanity.

Whatever May Be The Reason, Whether It Was That Hitler Thought He Might Get Away With What He Had Got Without Fighting For It, Orwhether It Was That After All The Preparations Were Not Sufficiently Complete--however, One Thing Is Certain: He Missed The Bus.

Armed Conflict Between Nations Is A Nightmare To Me; But If I Were Convinced That Any Nation Had Made Up Its Mind To Dominate The World By Fear Of Its Force, I Should Feel That It Must Be Resisted.

We Are Resolved That The Method Of Consultation Shall Be The Method Adopted To Deal With Any Other Questions That May Concern Our Two Countries, And We Are Determined To Continue Our Efforts To Remove Possible Sources Of Difference, And Thus To Contribute To Assure The Peace Of Europe.