“GRATEFUL THAT I AM BRITISH”
Sir Austen Chamberlain’s Utterance The following is one of the last, public utterances of the late Sir Austen Chamberlain. It was made in a speech at Birmingham.
"The longer I live,” he said, "the more profoundly grateful 1 am that I was horn a citizen of this free country.
"We tire a free people, we govern ourselves. We can think our own thoughts: if we maintain decency and courtesy we can express them freely.
"Our liberties remain and grow stronger as they perish or wither away elsewhere.”
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 157, 31 March 1937, Page 16
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92“GRATEFUL THAT I AM BRITISH” Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 157, 31 March 1937, Page 16
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