An Examination Of The Logic of Multiculturalism
‘I have no desire to see a dull uniformity of social life. I am rather thankful than otherwise to gentlemen who will take the trouble to wear robes and coronets and who will keep up a certain state of splendour which is very pleasant to look upon (hear, hear). They are ancient monuments (loud laughter), and I should be sorry to deface them (laughter). But then, gentlemen, I don’t admit that we can build upon these interesting ruins the foundations of our government (hear, hear). I cannot allow that these antiquities should control the destinies of a free empire (cheers).’
Joseph Chamberlain, the greatest statesman of the late Victorian era, speaking of the House of Lords at a public meeting in October 1884.