Quotations by Neville Chamberlain

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Born: Thursday, March 18, 1869
Died: Saturday, November 9, 1940 (71 years old)
Profession: Politician
Nationality: British

How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.
- Neville Chamberlain
(Keywords: People, Country, Nothing, Quarrel, Trying)

However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account.
- Neville Chamberlain
(Keywords: War, Circumstances, May, Nation)

I believe it is peace in our time.
- Neville Chamberlain
(Keywords: Peace, Time)

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.
- Neville Chamberlain
(Keywords: War, May)

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.
- Neville Chamberlain
(Keywords: Power, War, Causes, Collaboration, Spirit, Trying, Will)

We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.
- Neville Chamberlain
(Keywords: Peace, Possibility, Destruction, Earth, Fight, Future, Principles, Ruin, Security)