• Provided that the City of London remains, as it is at present, the clearing-house of the world, any other nation may be its workshop.

    Joseph Chamberlain: Provided that the City of London remains, as it is at present, the clearing-house of the world, any other nation may be its workshop.
    Speech at the Guildhall, 19 January 1904, in 'The Times' 20 January 1904